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Goesch's oeuvre, which Dubuffet admired for its "prodigious" watercolours, reveals a quest for a spiritual and mystical dimension of the world.

Paul Goesch alternated stays in a psychiatric hospital with periods of creative activity. An architect with a passion for anthroposophy, he produced an oeuvre that focused on mythological and religious subjects. Here, the discontinuous intensity of the stark line brings out the decorated volumes of the temple, in which there is a virgin with child. At the same time, chromatic explosions and diffracted light merge figures and architectonic elements into a single image. Goesch was a victim of the Third Reich's programme to exterminate the mentally ill.