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Adolf Wölfli
[Swiss, 1864-1930]
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Adolf Wölfli Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Adolf Wölfli available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "W"
Lille Metropole Musee d'Art Moderne, France (in French) 
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Breslau, Saint Adolf Castle
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIKART) 
Click "works" & search for artworks; click "exhibitions" & search for current exhibitions worldwide
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
 Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Bern, Switzerland
Articles and Reference Sites:
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
artcritical, the online magazine of art and ideas
The Herdsman/Rose of Australia, 1911
Raw Vision Magazine
Excerpt from art article on Adolf Wölfli
The New Yorker
"Adolf Wölfli at the American Folk Art Museum", 2003 review by Peter Schjeldahl
The Village Voice
"Primal Time", 2003 article by Jerry Saltz
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Adolf Wolfli: Draftsman, Writer, Poet, Composer
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