| Birth: | Apr. 12, 1892 | | Death: | Apr. 13, 1973 | 
Folk Artist. Henry Darger was a Chicago artist best known for the illustrations to his 15,000-page novel, "The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion." Raised in a brutal orphanage, he spent most of his adult life working as a janitor in Chicago hospitals, returning to his one room apartment in Lincoln Park each night to write and work on his paintings, which incorporate elements of collage and tracings from illustrations in popular magazines. His work was discovered only after his death, when his landlord, photographer Nathan Lerner, rescued it and began promoting it in Chicago art circles. His obsession with little girls and violence make his work difficult for some people to appreciate, but his work is unforgettable, and often stunningly beautiful. (bio by: Lori Robbins)
Search Amazon for Henry Darger | | | Burial:
All Saints Catholic Cemetery and Mausoleum
Des Plaines
Cook County
Illinois, USA
Plot: All Saints East, The Old People of the Little Sisters of the Poor Plot |
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Originally Created by: Lori Robbins
Record added: Sep 09, 2007
Find A Grave Memorial# 21463209 |
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I don't care what anyone says or thinks -- after seeing the body of prose and art you produced despite being deprived of your own happiness and perhaps tormented by ghosts no one else understood -- you are a saint. Definitely the protector of children as ...(Read more)
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