The Dream Artist Nobody Knows About

Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser. His unknown dream paintings were met with blank incomprehension, and were not well-received by the art community of the time, but, viewed today, his vivid paintings bear striking testament to the disruptive and transformative reality of individuation, the purpose of Jungian psychology, which is to seek wholeness of personality by bringing one's unconscious contents into reality. After a midlife crisis, Birkhäuser dedicated himself exclusively to bringing these unconscious images into reality. Just how hard this struggle with himself must have been is suggested by the fact that it took the artist twelve years to make the great break and paint a picture entirely according to his own imagination, with no model from the real world. Birkhäuser's daughter Eva Wertenschlag is the president of the Birkhäuser-Oeri Foundation, you can visit the works in Basel, Switzlerland. Contact through the official homepage: https://birkhaeuser-oeri.ch/en 👑 Become a Patron Access exclusive material and deeper studies https://www.patreon.com/eternalised ⭐ Or become a YouTube Member https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqos1tl0RntucGGtPXNxkkA/join — Support the work ☕ Buy a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised 💸 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial 👕 Official Merch: https://eternalised.creator-spring.com — For deeper study 📜 Full transcript: https://eternalisedofficial.com/2022/01/29/birkhauser-the-dream-artist/ 📚 Personal library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library 💡 eBooks: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised/shop 🎨 Artwork archive: https://eternalisedofficial.com/patron-benefits Stay connected 📨 Newsletter: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe ✍️ Substack: https://substack.com/@eternalised — Elsewhere 🐦 X: https://x.com/eternalised1 📷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eternalised_official 🎧 Podcast: https://anchor.fm/eternalised 📘 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eternalised ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Light From the Darkness: The Paintings of Peter Birkhäuser https://amzn.to/3IMq5fJ ▶ Windows on Eternity: The Paintings of Peter Birkhäuser https://amzn.to/3raoc6D ▶ Man and His Symbols https://amzn.to/3lYyz94 ▶ Modern Man In Search of a Soul https://amzn.to/2G3mhw7 ▶ Memories, Dreams, Reflections https://amzn.to/3dAcD0z ▶ Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales https://amzn.to/3nLdWjj 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction: Peter Birkhäuser (6:06) 1. T