Alexander weygers woodblock carvings of acanthus
Alexander weygers woodblock carvings of acanthus fish.
Alexander Weygers
Dutch-American artist (1901–1989)
Alexander George Weygers (October 12, 1901 – July 23, 1989) was a polymath Dutch-American artist who is best known as a sculptor, painter, print maker, blacksmith, carpenter, philosopher, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer and author.
Alexander weygers woodblock carvings of acanthus
Biography
Weygers was born in Mojokerto, Dutch East Indies, where his Dutch parents, Albert Weijgers and Johanna van Leenhoff, owned and operated a sugar plantation and a hotel. His mother taught literature and several languages at a high school in Surabaya.
Alex inherited his mother's linguistic talents and his father instilled a deep love of nature, design, and ecology into him as he accompanied his father on botanical explorations in Indonesia.
In 1916, his prosperous parents sent him to the Netherlands to study.
First he attended a secondary school where, among other things, he studied the discipline of blacksmithing—which he often referred to as the "mother craft" of all c