Alida Schaap, born in 1960, lives and works in The Hague, the Netherlands. Since 1995 she is active in "Atelier De Haagse school" in The Hague, an art studio in which mentally handicapped artists can participate in art classes or freely work on her own work. More...

Edmund Krengel was born in 1934 in Weiler, in Eifel (Germany). Since 1955 he has lived in Kloster Ebernach, a residential home and service establishment for the intellectually disadvantaged in Cochern on the Mosel. Krengel has worked there since 1986 as an artist in the "Ausdruck" group. His works reflect motifs from his surroundings in his distinctive personal style. More...

Adolf Beutler, born in 1935, lives and works in Berlin. Beutler has never visited a school. At the age of twelve years he was admitted to a psychiatric clinic. He worked there until the age of 54. It was only in 1996, at the age of 61, that he began his artistic work at the art studio in the workshops for disabled persons of mosaic gGmbH in Berlin. More...