After the death of his parents, Jakob Morf, who wished to become a gardener, was placed against his will as a farmhand with several farmers for forty-five years. A workplace accident in 1980 forced him into early retirement, and he was placed in an institution in Rafz. It was then that he spontaneously began to draw. During the day, he worked on the adjoining farm, and in the evening he devoted himself to his artworks. His production includes, on the one hand, drawings often depicting flowers or geometric patterns interwoven with writing. It also features compositions built around newspaper clippings, enhanced with pencil, pen or felt-tip ornaments and handwritten text. To do this, he used graph paper notebooks. While the institution where he lived initially neglected his work, the intervention of a new nurse, Brigitte Neff, in 1999 allowed Morf’s work to be recognized and exhibited.