Jan Yoors (1922–1977)
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- 1922-04-12
- Todestag
- 1977-11-27
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- Belgium
- Geburtsort
- Antwerp, Belgium
- Sterbeort
- New York, New York, USA
- Wohnorte
- London, England, UK
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- École nationale supérieure d'architecture et des arts décoratifs, Brussels
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - Berufe
- photographer
sculptor
painter
tapestry artist
filmmaker
resistance member (Zeige alle 7)
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- Jan Yoors was born in Antwerp, Belgium to Eugene Yoors, a prominent stained glass artist, and his wife Magda Peeters, a human rights activist, both of them Catholic pacifists. He grew up in a cultured, liberal home. At age 12, with his parents' consent, he went to stay with a roaming Rom (Gypsy) tribe and lived with them on and off over the next 10 years. During the Nazi Occupation of his country in World War II, he became a liaison agent between resistance and Allied intelligence units and Romani behind German lines. In 1943, he was arrested twice by the Gestapo, condemned to death, and imprisoned, but escaped.
Before the war, he had studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture et des arts décoratifs (known as La Cambre) in Brussels. When the war ended, he married Annebert van Wettum and went to London to attend the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He was introduced to the art of tapestry and set up a tapestry studio with Annebert and their friend Marianne Citroen. In 1951, they moved to New York City and set up the Jan Yoors Studio. His tapestries, paintings, and photographs are included in collections of museums, corporations, religious institutions, and public and private collectors worldwide. He also wrote two books of memoirs, The Gypsies (1967) and Crossing: A Journal of Survival and Resistance in World War II (1971).
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and he was a wonderful observer. What I hadn't known is that he also took photographs--this version takes key excerpts from "Gypsies" and pairs them with Yoors' photos. Many of the people in the photos did not survive the death camps. Somehow, in the way of Barthes' illuminations on the relation of death and photography's meanings, this lends them a terrible power.
It's a tender and beautiful book, and the small press that produced it has done a lovely job.… (mehr)