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JOHANN KNOPF Outline and tone The blackbirds illuminating this frantic The Mysterious Affairs of the
manuscript are drawn in pencil, firmly outlined, numbered, Murderous Attacks
An " O u t s i d e r " a r t i s t w h o s u f f e r e d f r o m m e n t a l and filled evenly with tone. The main group is placed in
illness.K n o p f b e l i e v e d h e c o u l d u n d e r s t a n d t h e UNDATED
language of birds, which often feature as symbolic a circle drawn with a compass. The text, written last of all,
creatures in his drawings. T h e G e r m a n art historian appears to be stirred like water by the presence of the 133/8 x 115/8 in (340 x 2 9 6 mm)

and psychiatrist Hans Prinzhom collected this image. circle and the birds. JOHANN KNOPF