Ritsch-Fisch Galerie

Outsider Art is a made of sensitivity and adrenaline

Jean-Pierre Ritsch-Fisch started his career as a collector in the 70’s with “Figuration Narrative. In 1989, he came across the work of Daniel Cordier in the exhibit Donation at the Museum of Modern Art, the work of Michel Nedjar, and then decided to meet him and collect Folk Art. In 1996 he established his gallery and specializes in Folk Art and Outsider Art.

His gallery is amongst the first to display Folk Art at in international level, in participating, from 1999 onwards, at the FIAC. Art Cologne and Art Paris and his is the only French gallery to participate for ten straight days in the New York Outsider Art Fair. For the last five years, interest in Folk Art and Outsider Art has been growing. To cite but a few of the most consequential and most recent events: the Venice Biennale in 2013, the exhibit from the collection “The Museum of Everything”, the exhibit at the Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfort, at the Hayward Gallery in London or at the Hamburger Banhof of Berlin, or soon to come, next October, the ABCD collection (Bruno Decharme) at the Red-House Foundation Antoine de Galbert.

Jean-Pierre Ritsch-Fisch has been advising an important number of French and foreign collectors since 1996.


J-P Ritsch-Fisch : Collector to the gallery

Jean-Pierre Ritsch-Fisch has combined his passion for his job. His collection is a representation of his life, from his years of research, joys and passions that took him to the foundation of his gallery specializes in Art Brut – Outsider Art.
He wants to show what he loves, transmit and share his passion turned to Art Brut – Outsider Art order to live works of art.
J.-P. Ritsch-Fisch Gallery is involved to discover exceptional works of Art Brut because the best piece is that we do not yet have and he has not found.