Richard Erdoes
Richard Erdoes (also: Erdős and Erdos, * July 7, 1912 in Vienna or Frankfurt am Main, † July 16, 2008 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States ) was a Hungarian- Austrian-American artist, writer and fighter for the rights of American Indians. He was not sparing of the Indian women's movement. In the United States it reached as an expert on the culture of North American Indians, especially the Sioux, a great reputation, which is in the publication of numerous books and photo books, most of which have been translated into six languages and is regularly reprinted founded.
Life
Erdoes was the son of a Hungarian Jewish opera singer ( Richárd Erdős (s) from 1881 to 1912 ) and an Austrian Catholic baker's daughter. His father died before his birth, which is why his mother was looking for a new place to live with her sister, the actress Leopoldine Schrom, in Germany. He grew up in Berlin and Vienna. He studied in these cities as well as in Paris ethnology, archeology, anthropology and art - the latter in Berlin at the Academy of Arts in Käthe Kollwitz. He wrote short stories and worked as a cartoonist for the newspapers The day and the hour. After the Anschluss he was hiding and fled 1939 Berlin to Belgium and France. In 1940 he went from Great Britain to the United States, where he was until 1970 mainly as a photographer, illustrator, among other things, Time Inc., Life, National Geographic, Vogue, Harper's Baazar, Fortune and The New York Times operates. For Erika Mann, he illustrated 1942 A Gang of Ten. He also illustrated the book Come over to My House of the famous children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel ( Dr. Seuss ). 1958 Erdoes U.S. citizen. After 1970 he sat reinforced with the American Indian cultures apart, which soon became his new main field of activity. He also initiated publications, for the first time gave an insight into the Indian women's movement and the role of women in the uprising of the American Indian Movement against human rights violations in the USA in 1973 at Wounded Knee worked out ( with Mary Crow Dog ).
His journalistic work has created throughout his life an extensive archive of over 60,000 photographs and numerous manuscripts, film and tape recordings. These range from the Austrian theater life from about 1860 on the Vienna of the interwar period and the New York art scene of the 1950s up to the Indian reservations.
Richard Erdoes lived in Santa Fe ( New Mexico) and was until his death as an author and civil rights activist working.
Works
- Richard Erdoes, Alfonso Ortiz: American Indian Myths and Legends
- Mary Crow Dog, Richard Erdoes: Ohitika Woman
- Mary Crow Dog, Richard Erdoes: Lakota Woman
- Richard Erdoes: Saloons of the Old West
- Richard Erdoes, Crying for a Dream: The World through Native American Eyes
- Richard Erdoes, Leonard Crow Dog Crow Dog - Four Generations Of Sioux Medicine Men
- Richard Erdoes: The Thunder Dreamer - memories. Picus Verlag, Vienna 1999
- Dennis Banks, Richard Erdoes: Ojibwa Warrior: Dennis Banks and the Rise of the American Indian Movement. Norman, Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8061-3580-8
Film
The 1999 finished documentary Stone White man by Martina Theininger and Georg Schrom is dedicated to the work and the research Richard Erdoes ' as a fighter for civil rights of American Indians. The book " Lakota Woman" was also made into a film and won by even wider attention, even on the European continent.
Awards
- American Book Award ( 1990)
- Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art First Class (1999)