MARGARETHE HELD
1894-1981
Alma: Mediums and Visionaries, Es Baluard Museum (Palma de Mallorca) 2019
Wenn Geister malen lassen: Botschaften aus dem Zwischenreich, Museum Charlotte Zander (Bönnigheim) 2004
Art spirite, médiumnique et visionnaire: Messages d'outre tombe, La Halle Saint-Pierre (Paris) 1999/2000
Margarethe Held, Galerie Susanne Zander (Cologne) 1999
Margarethe Held, Galerie Susanne Zander (Cologne) 1990
Die automatische Botschaft der Margarethe Held aus Mettingen, Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart) 1984
Mediumistische Kunst, Galerie Petersen (Berlin) 1977
Pilar Bonet Julve. "Dell'occulto e del meraviglioso: Jane Ruffié, Margarethe Held, Gertrude Honzatko-Mediz." Osservatorio Outsider Art, 19, 2020 (pp. 68–83)
Die automatische Botschaft der Margarethe Held aus Mettingen. Stuttgart: Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1984
Paola Giovetti, Arte medianica. Pitture e disegni dei sensitivi. Roma: Edizioni Mediterranee, 1982 (pp. 163-169)
Margarethe Held, Unkontrollierbares Universum. Bilder und Worte eines Mediums, Berlin: Rainer, 1977
Martine Lusardy et al. (eds.), Art spirite, médiumnique et visionnaire: Messages d'outre tombe, Paris: Hoëbeke, 1999
Mediumistische Kunst, Berlin: Galerie Petersen, 1977
Wenn Geister malen lassen: Botschaften aus dem Zwischenreich, Bönnigheim: Museum Charlotte Zander, 2004
COMPELLED TO DRAW BY THE SPIRIT SIWA (GOD OF INDIANS AND MONGOLS), HELD UNCONSCIOUSLY, AND WITH GREAT URGENCY, PRODUCED OVER 300 DRAWINGS OVER A TEN YEAR PERIOD. THIS TASK, WHICH SHE CLAIMED HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO HER FROM ANOTHER REALM, YIELDED A PANTHEON OF GNOMES, FAUNS, FAIRIES, WATER SPIRITS, ELVES, NATURE GODS, HERMAPHRODITES AND DEMONS. IT REMAINS ONE OF THE 20TH CENTURY’S MOST SIGNIFICANT GALLERIES OF THE DECEASED, THE DISCARNATE AND THE DISEMBODIED.