Frederick Weygold

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Frederick Weygold (1870?1941), American artist and self-trained ethnographer, is today almost unknown outside of German-speaking Europe. This book, based upon the voluminous body of his paintings, drawings, and papers held by the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, and upon research in American and European museums and archives, offers for the first time a comprehensive account of Weygold?s life and achievements as an artist, collector, educator, and social activist. Born in St. Charles, Missouri, Weygold studied languages and art in Germany and Philadelphia before settling in Louisville in 1908. In Europe, Weygold became fascinated with American Indians, taught himself the Lakota language, and began his life-long study of Native American art by drawing early objects from the Plains in German museum collections. In Philadelphia he did?fieldwork? with Lakotas working for Wild West shows and collected Lakota texts and drawings. This book features selected examples from his work as a painter, illustrator, photographer, and collector of Native American art and artifacts.00Exhibition: Speed Art Museum, Louisiville, USA (07.01.-16.03.2017)