Background
August Natterer was born on August 3, 1868, Ravensburg, Tübingen, Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany. He was the son of a clerk and the youngest of nine children.
August Natterer was born on August 3, 1868, Ravensburg, Tübingen, Baden-Wrttemberg, Germany. He was the son of a clerk and the youngest of nine children.
August Natterer was a talented electrician and mechanic, whose ability to design and fabricate machines earned him employment with the University of Wuerzburg. Unemployment and hardship contributed to his deterioration, and he was eventually hospitalized after attempting suicide. He spent the remaining twenty six years of his life in various clinics. He considered himself the illegitimate son of Napoleon and the Redeemer of all human sins. In the hospital, he received visions that he interpreted as omens and depicted later in the paper. According to him, his drawing "World axis with hare" was a prediction of the World War I.
August Natterer was married. He had no children.
