{"id":1935,"name":"","email":"","language_id":1,"permalink":"henry-joseph-darger","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1892-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:17","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Henry Joseph","lastname":"Darger","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Henry Joseph Darger","date_of_death":"1973-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","cached_name_asc":"Darger, Henry Joseph","stream_count_app":13,"gender":"other","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/013/524/large/Henry_Darger.jpg?1354790514","poster_credits":null,"media_count":1,"items_count":2,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry Darger was born in Chicago in 1892. After the death of his mother he was placed in a Catholic home for boys and then into the Lincoln Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children in rural Illinois, from which he ran away at the age of seventeen. Darger lived a solitary life, working as a janitor in a Chicago hospital from around the age of thirty until his retirement in 1963. A devout Catholic, Darger went to mass every day. During this time Darger created the work for which he is now known. This, his magnum opus, is commonly referred to as *In the Realms of the Unreal*. This expansive, complex narrative together with over 300 imaginatively constructed fantasy drawings have come to be regarded as one of the 20th century\u0026rsquo;s most original and unusual literary works. It was not until after Darger\u0026rsquo;s death that the full scope of his artistic production became known. His landlord, Nathan Lerner, himself an artist and inventor, discovered Darger\u0026rsquo;s artworks after the artist was sent to a nursing home just before the end of his life. Darger\u0026rsquo;s works are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the American Folk Art Museum in New York, the Collection de l\u0026rsquo;Art Brut (Lausanne), the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and the Milwaukee Art Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry Darger werd geboren in Chicago in 1892. Na de dood van zijn moeder werd hij ondergebracht in een katholiek tehuis voor jongens en vervolgens in het Lincoln Asylum for Feeble-Minded Children (een \u0026lsquo;asiel voor zwakzinnige kinderen\u0026rsquo;) op het platteland van Illinois. Op 17-jarige leeftijd liep hij weg. Darger leidde een eenzaam leven en werkte als conci\u0026euml;rge in een ziekenhuis in Chicago van zijn dertiger jaren tot zijn pensioen in 1963. Als vrome katholiek ging hij dagelijks naar de mis. In die periode maakte Darger het werk waar hij tegenwoordig bekend voor staat: zijn magnum opus, doorgaans benoemd als *In the Realms of the Unreal*. Het uitgebreide, complexe verhaal wordt, samen met de meer dan driehonderd fantasierijke tekeningen, beschouwd als een van de origineelste en meest ongewone literaire werken van de 20e eeuw. Pas na de dood van Darger raakte de volle omvang van zijn artistieke productie bekend. Zijn huisbaas, Nathan Lerner, zelf een kunstenaar en uitvinder, ontdekte Dargers kunstwerken nadat de kunstenaar naar een home was gestuurd, net voor zijn levenseinde. Werk van Darger is opgenomen in de permanente collecties van het Museum of Modern Art en het American Folk Art Museum in New York, het Collection de l\u0026rsquo;Art Brut (Lausanne), het New Orleans Museum of Art, het Art Institute of Chicago, het Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), en het Milwaukee Art Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"","place":"Chicago","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}}]}