Download or read book Die Schlumper. Kunst ohne Grenzen / The Schlumpers. Art Without Borders written by Günther Gercken and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-26 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Schlumpers, a Hamburg-based group of mentally handicapped artists working under the guidance of painter Rolf Laute, have produced remarkable artistic work. That work, presented here for the first time, brings new relevance to the question of the origin and creation of art. It is the unconventional form and the power of expression that fascinates: totally unexpected and astounding, the creative power of these artists, some with the severest of handicaps. Their condition differs greatly from that of psychotics, whose artistic work has already been studied extensively, and from this point of view, the book represents the first publication on the artistic work of the mentally handicapped.