Shown in the anteroom

Jakob Mohr, a victim of negative fluorite-electric thought waves

09.09. – 5.11.2017

This monographic exhibition held in the anteroom of our museum introduces the Mannheim gardener Jakob Mohr (1884–1940), who from 1905 on repeatedly underwent psychiatric treatment. He believed to be exposed to and influenced by machine-generated waves directed towards him by an “aggressor”. As protection, he made himself a coat from tin foil. In a courtroom scene drawn in rich detail Mohr demonstrates how these waves even induced him to commit perjury. The Prague artist Eva Koťátková (*1982) chose this drawing as a starting point for her performance “The Judicial Murder of Jakob Mohr“ (2016). A film of the performance will be shown in our exhibition as well as other works by Mohr.

Jakob Mohr, Judicial Murder, 1909-1910, Inv. Nr. Inv. No. 627b recto © Prinzhorn collection, University Hospital Heidelberg