Jan Yoors, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Belgian artist, photographer and writer
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Place of Birth: Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Jan Yoors
- Jan Yoors (12 April 1922 – 27 November 1977) was a Flemish-American artist, photographer, painter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and tapestry creator.
- 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 (1967) and Crossing: A Journal of Survival and Resistance in World War II (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.
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