BIOGRAPHY

Robert Gie was born in 1869 in Soleure, Switzerland, where he became a carpenter. An alcoholic with a history of mental troubles, some time before 1908 (when he was institutionalized at the Hospital de la Rosegg) Gie began experiencing corporeal hallucinations which he experienced as "emanations" endangering or emerging from his bodily openings, and which he attempted to draw, for a time in 1909 and again in 1916. In all he spent fourteen years in a mental institution, occasionally behaving violently but often existing only in a catatonic state, escaping once, and finally being officially released in 1922. What happened to him afterwards is not known.

BOOKS

The End is Near! Roger Manley. Illustrated. Bio.