Allan Houser
Allan Houser (actually Allan C. Haozous, born June 29, 1914 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma; † August 22, 1994 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an American painter and sculptor of the modern era.
Biography
Allan was the son of Sam and Blossom Haozous, these belonged to the tribe of the Chiricahua Apache to. His father was an Apache warrior who fought for the freedom of his people, he was a great-nephew of the famous war chief and shaman Geronimo ( 1829-1909 ). Allan studied until 1934 at the Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico art history and used the cultural heritage of North American Indians. In 1939 he exhibited at the World Fair in New York and San Francisco for the first time his works. He got his first big order from the Ministry of the Interior in Washington. Through his teacher, the Norwegian artist Ole Nordmark, he later switched to sculpture. In 1939 Allan Houser married his childhood sweetheart Anna Marie Gallegos and moved with his growing family to Los Angeles, where he worked as a warehouse worker in the harbor. Inspired by the Indian sculptures and under the influence of sculptors such as Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, he began his material directly edit to include irregularities in the material and the machining marks in his sculpture. From 1962 he taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe painting and sculpture. Allan Houser died of a heart attack. He was one of his monumental paintings, drawings and sculptures of the most famous representatives of the Native and Modern Art.