In the 1970s, Oswald Tschirtner (above), who was also a patient at Gugging, drew illustrations for about 50 of Herbeck's poems. These illustrations accompany their respective poems in the book Bebende Herzen im Leibe der Hunde (Rogner & Bernhard, 1979). When illustrations exist, I will include them in the notes for their respective poems.
Oswald Tschirtner was born in Perchtholdsdorf in 1920. He served in World War II, and was taken prisoner by the French. When he returned to Austria in 1946 he was hospitalized for psychiatric disturbances, and lived at Maria Gugging for most of his life until his death in 2007.
Tschirtner's art has been exhibited widely: at the Sao Paulo Biennale, the Hayward Gallery, London, Parsons School of Design, New York, and in other venues in Vienna, Düsseldorf, Berlin, Bremen, Lausanne, San Francisco, and Chicago.
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