The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on Art By Charlie English William Collins. 2021. £20.00 (hb). 336 pp. ISBN 9780008299620

ISBN 9780008299620 This is an important and disturbing book that tells the story of how, in the aftermath of the First World War, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn, working at the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic, amassed a collection of patients’ art, which he made famous in his ground-breaking 1922 book The Artistry of the Mentally Ill. The techniques developed to murder psychiatric patients would, of course, be used later to murder Jewish people, Roma people and other ‘undesirables’, but this time in far greater numbers. [...]dozens of the original Prinzhorn artists met a similar fate.