Jean Dubuffet was one of the most richly inventive artists of the 20th century. In the mid-Forties, he had grown tired of established art and set off in search of a new art concept: free, uninfluenced, anti-intellectual, and raw, therefore “brut”, was the way this art should be. And Dubuffet actually found it, in unusual places: on the street, in jails, in popular art, or in psychiatric clinics within and beyond Europe. For Dubuffet, this art was to form the basis of the concept he named Art Brut.  museum gugging exhibits 168 works from Dubuffet’s now legendary collection, whose foundation stone he laid between 1945 and 1949. 164 works were brought together in this historical exhibition, which was shown for the first time in 1949 at the Galerie Rene Drouin in Paris under the title L’Art Brut. Today, these works form the original core of the Collection de I’Art Brut, Lausanne, which had put together this show to mark its 40 years of existence.

Artists: Julie Bar, Robert Gie, Jean Mar, Berthe Urasco, Qadour Douida, Somuk, Xavier Parguey, Béguin, , Georges Roger, Amélie Stern, Ernst Bollin, Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse Corbaz, Sylvain Lecocq, Benjamin Arneval, Auguste Forestier, Marguerite Sirvins, Juliette Élisa Bataille, Marie-Louise Bergeaud, Fernand Costa, Jeanne Tripier, Jaime Saguer, Albino Braz, Victor Waedemon, Gaston Chaissac, Fleury-Joseph Crépin, Joseph Degaudé-Lamber, Henri Filaquier, Pierre Giraud, Miguel Hernandez, Alfred Antonin Juritzky, Pascal-Désir Maisonneuve u.v.m.