Juva (Prince Antonin Juritzky)

Juva was the nom de plume of a lapsed nobleman and academic, who was also an obsessive collector of curiously-shaped flint stones. The so-called artist presented them as evidence of anthropomorphic pre-cultural making and designed special wooden stands to reveal their meaning via a specific orientation. Although Juva did not fit the archetype of an anti-cultural artist, he remained one of the rarest and highly prized discoveries in art brut.