Five vehicles on tracks with human heads (artwork)

1 drawing by Psychiatric patient 1 "Heinz", depicting five railway train-like figures with orange heads and red caps riding on tracks or tramlines towards the viewer. A pastel drawing in many colours. The description is taken from notes written by Wellcome staff during conversations with Rita Simon between 1995 and 1997. Rita Simon's comment on the picture was "Tramlines, helplessness".

The title has been supplied by the cataloguer for identification purposes.

Rita Simon's style classification: Linear transition.

c.1950

1 artwork Pastel on paper. 27.6 x 37.8 cm.

The patient was a male German Jewish refugee working in the 1950s. He was paranoid and seemed to compensate for this through admiring Hitler and kept a photograph of Hitler on his person. "Heinz" attended therapy sessions once a week at a psychiatric centre. He had very precise English diction and sat very straight when drawing.

This information is taken from conversations between Rita Simon and Wellcome staff between 1995 and 1997.