'Miraculous survival': asylum patient whose art documented his sterilisation by the Nazis
The grim drawings by Wilhelm Werner are finally getting recognition as important artworksForty-four pencil drawings on the backsides of a shop order book are all that remain of the life of Wilhelm Werner. But his artistic response to the forced sterilisation programme he underwent in Nazi Germany, a bundle of leaves flimsily held together in a worn leather cover, is receiving growing recognition in the art world almost eight decades after his death.The detailed sketches, like scenes from a puppe
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