Little-known Heidelberg museum features art created by psychiatric patients of decades past.

One that stuck with me was a hand-sewn jacket by Agnes Richter, a seamstress who was committed in 1893. She embroidered autobiographical phrases into the fabric in tight spirals of old German script.

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