Leo Navratil, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Austrian psychiatrist and author
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Place of Birth: Türnitz, Lower Austria, Austria
About Leo Navratil
- Leo Navratil (3 July 1921 in Türnitz, Lower Austria – 18 September 2006 in Vienna) was an Austrian psychiatrist and author. He worked in the hospital in Gugging.
- He called the works, paintings, and texts of his patients "Zustandsgebundene Kunst" (state-bound art).
- To Navratil, patients make only in the acute stage of their mental illness artistically relevant works.
- These works have been exhibited in Berlin, Vienna, Salzburg and Heidelberg.
- Navratil supported the creativity of his patients and showed their works in the art context and published some of their texts.
- One of his best known artists is Oswald Tschirtner, also known as O.T.
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