#agnes richter

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This jacket was embroidered by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who at 49 years of age went first to Dresden City Lunitic Asylum in 1888, and then in 1895 to Hubertusberg psychiatric hospital, having been diagnosed apparently of paranoia with auditory hallucinations. There, in a sketchy deutsche scrift, she embroydered many phrases including "I am not big", "I wish to read", "My jacket", "I am in Hubertusburg", "my white stockings", "no cherries", "brother freedom", "I plunge headlong into disaster", and her case number, 580m, numerous times.

[07170]

"We know little of Richter. She was a German seamstress, committed at age forty-nine for paranoia when she said people were stealing from her. Only a few odd phrases from the dense deutsche Schrift she embroidered all over her regulation-issue (but altered by her) [strait]jacket have been deciphered: “I am not big” (true: this thing is child-sized), “I wish to read,” and “I plunge headlong into disaster.” The jacket is stained with sweat and very worn." - Kate Sekules, Mend! A Refashioning Manual and Manifesto | image

[dailyunsolvedmysteries-movedd]

Agnes Richter was a seamstress that was taken against her will to a mental institute in Germany, where she remained during the late 1800s and early 1900s. While there, she disassembled the uniform she was given and reconstructed it into a jacket. She stitched every single surface, including the inside, with text. The text is difficult to decode but it is believed to be autobiographical.

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[morbidology]

Agnes Richter was a seamstress that was taken against her will to a mental institute in Germany, where she remained during the late 1800s and early 1900s. While there, she disassembled the uniform she was given and reconstructed it into a jacket. She stitched every single surface, including the inside, with text. The text is difficult to decode but it is believed to be autobiographical.

[airvvave]

Linen jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was forced into an Austrian asylum during the late 1800′s and who embroidered her life story onto the jacket as an attempt to regain her identity

[plumcoloredblazer]

Agnes Richter, a seamstress institutionalized in a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital in 1893, embroidered a webwork of script into her personally sewn wool and linen jacket. Much of the multicolored text she jotted in thread can’t be deciphered because of its overlapping nature and time’s abrasion.

[doctornerdington]

This website is maintained by Gail Hornstein, author of Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness and To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

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