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Jan Yoors
Yoors working on Cartoon for Tapestry in JP Morgan collection
Born
(1922-04-12)12 April 1922
Antwerp, Belgium
Died
27 November 1977(1977-11-27) (aged 55)
St. Vincent's Hospital, New York City
Resting place
Green River Cemetery
Nationality
Belgian
Alma mater
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
Spouse
Annebert van Wettum
(m. 1946)
Awards
Europaprijs voor literatuur 1969 Christophe Plantin Prize 1973
Jan Yoors (12 April 1922 – 27 November 1977) was a Belgian-American artist, photographer, painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and tapestry creator.[1] Growing up in Antwerp to liberal, pacifist parents, his father Eugeen Yoors, a famed stained-glass artist, Yoors studied painting before deciding to live with a Rom kumpania he encountered on the outskirts of Antwerp at the age of twelve, and about which he would later write two memoirs, The Gypsies[2] (1967) and Crossing: A Journal of Survival and Resistance in World War II[3] (1971), the latter about living with the Rom during World War II. Yoors fled to London after the war where he lived with his wife Annebert and her best friend Marianne. It is at this point that Yoors began to design tapestries and set up a tapestry studio with his wife Annebert and Marianne. In 1950 he moved to New York, traveling there under the guise of a journalist. The following year, Annebert and Marianne joined and the three set up the Jan Yoors Studio. In New York, Yoors befriended numerous figures in the art and design worlds. He received commissions from corporations such as Bank of America, and J.P. Morgan, and private collectors. His work was seen in numerous exhibitions across the United States and internationally. In New York in the 50s, Yoors also continued his passion for photography, which he began while living with the Rom, documenting the streets of New York. He traveled extensively on a trip to revisit his Rom family in Europe, and, in 1966–67 photographed post-war religious buildings for Edward Sovik as part of the First International Congress on Religion, Architecture, and the Visual Arts in New York. Yoors's oeuvre is currently represented by several galleries in New York, Europe including reGeneration Furniture, Todd Merrill, L Parker Stephenson Photographs, and Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, and regularly shown at design and photography fairs.
^Servellon, Sergio; Falino, Jeannine; Janssen, Elsje (2012). Jan Yoors. Belgium: FeliXart Museum Drogenbos: Pandora Publishers.
^Yoors, Jan (1967). The Gypsies. New York: Simon & Schuster.
^Yoors, Jan (1971). Crossing: A Journal of Survival and Resistance in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster.
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on the Writings of Truman Capote" (June 16 – July 3, 1952). In 1953, JanYoors, the Belgian-born artist working in tapestry, painting, sculpture, and...
American and are notable. Ted LeFevre (1964–), theatrical set designer JanYoors (1922–1977), Flemish-American artist, photographer, painter, sculptor...
LEON Music Bonn Opera 1972 Jean DEVAUX Arts and Ballet Guatemala 1973 JanYOORS Artist New York City 1974 Pierre RIJCKMANS Sinologist Australian National...
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of thousands of Jews escaping the Holocaust. In Belgium, feminist Magda Yoors Peeters defends Jewish refugees and conscientious objectors. After the war...
Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Svantesson, Jan-Olof; Raw Kam; Kristina Lindell; Håkan Lundstrom. 2013. Dictionary of Kammu...
pronunciation of the name Uranus preferred among astronomers is /ˈjʊərənəs/ YOOR-ə-nəs, with the long "u" of English and stress on the first syllable as in...
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