b'thewarshemarriedandsettledinHamburg,whereshelookedafterthefamilyhomeandpainted.Thenotealsotellsusthatshehadfrequentstaysinpsychiatricclinics.ShediedinHamburgin1992.ItishighlylikelythatKhlerproducedtheseextantartworksduring,orsubsequentto,timesshewashospitalised.Thereare,tobesure,certainaffinitieswiththeworkofanotherGermanartistandcontemporarywhoalsoexperiencedpsychictrauma,UnicaZrn.Itispossiblethatthebodyofworkthatwehavesurvivedbecauseithadbeeninthepossessionofoneofherdoctors.These are not psychotic images, though. While the works are clearly redolent of visionaryexperience,theyaretheproductofanassuredhand,anddonothavethatsenseofvisualandlingualdisintegrationandincoherencethatcharacteristicallyaccompaniesthejourneyinto,andexperienceof,full-blownpsychosis.Rather,theyseemtooperatemoreasreportsbackfromexperiencesofsomepsychicelsewhere.Givenherintense,liminalencounterswithotherrealms,itisfittingthatherworkisincludedintwoimportantcollectionsdevotedtovisionarycreativity,thePrinzhornCollection,HeidelbergandtheCollegeofPsychicStudies,London.Khler/Sieg-bertillustratestheliminalmomentofcrossingontotheothersideinoneofhermost figurative images, The Intermediate Realm? (fig.9). From a spiritual point of view, shewrites, this intermediate zone is the realm that people are still searching for and slowlyapproachingaftertheirdeath.Asearchwhichis,initself,notsolitary,butcommunitywork.HersenseofpsychicliminalityisnowheremoreclearlystatedthaninanoteontheversoofThePoemoftheSphere(fig.10):3'