Aloïse Corbaz (28 June 1886 – 5 April 1964), was a Swiss outsider artist included in Jean Dubuffet’s initial collection of psychiatric art. She is one of very few acclaimed female outsider artists.
She started drawing and writing poetry in secret circa 1920, but most of her early work has been destroyed; director of the hospital Hans Steck and general practitioner Jacqueline Porret-Forel first took an interest in 1936, and her work was finally discovered by Dubuffet in 1947. He believed Aloïse cured herself by ceasing to fight against her illness, by choosing to cultivate it and make use of it instead.
