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WILLIAM ACHEFF

KÜNSTLER BIO ANFORDERN
 
When William Acheff painted his first centuries-old Pueblo pot shortly after arriving in Taos in 1973, he realized he could evoke the deep quiet he imagined earlier artists felt working in their time. Though the artist has no direct link to the Southwestern and Plains tribes whose artifacts he has collected and painted, he seeks to extend an appreciation for Native American traditions, human qualities of continuity, and a slower pace of life as well as what he calls, "the subtle relationships that are common to us all." Archeff was born in 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, of Georgian, Russian, Scottish, Dutch, and Alaskan-Athabascan heritage. Classically trained in San Francisco, he continues to paint in this widely recognized, distinctive way, often blending artifacts and traditions of the past with contemporary items and settings. <br><br>The bowl depicted in the present example is from San Juan, a pueblo rich in a tradition of creating pottery vessels for functional use. Though the early elegant shapes and beautiful curves ended by the 1900s, they were revived in the 1930s and 1940s when local women studied ancient pottery from the area as a basis for a bowl such as the one depicted here. Rather than "San Juan," the native people prefer the traditional name Ohkay Owingeh which means "Place of the Strong People."
When William Acheff painted his first centuries-old Pueblo pot shortly after arriving in Taos in 1973, he realized he could evoke the deep quiet he imagined earlier artists felt working in their time. Though the artist has no direct link to the Southwestern and Plains tribes whose artifacts he has collected and painted, he seeks to extend an appreciation for Native American traditions, human qualities of continuity, and a slower pace of life as well as what he calls, "the subtle relationships that are common to us all." Archeff was born in 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, of Georgian, Russian, Scottish, Dutch, and Alaskan-Athabascan heritage. Classically trained in San Francisco, he continues to paint in this widely recognized, distinctive way, often blending artifacts and traditions of the past with contemporary items and settings. <br><br>The bowl depicted in the present example is from San Juan, a pueblo rich in a tradition of creating pottery vessels for functional use. Though the early elegant shapes and beautiful curves ended by the 1900s, they were revived in the 1930s and 1940s when local women studied ancient pottery from the area as a basis for a bowl such as the one depicted here. Rather than "San Juan," the native people prefer the traditional name Ohkay Owingeh which means "Place of the Strong People." When William Acheff painted his first centuries-old Pueblo pot shortly after arriving in Taos in 1973, he realized he could evoke the deep quiet he imagined earlier artists felt working in their time. Though the artist has no direct link to the Southwestern and Plains tribes whose artifacts he has collected and painted, he seeks to extend an appreciation for Native American traditions, human qualities of continuity, and a slower pace of life as well as what he calls, "the subtle relationships that are common to us all." Archeff was born in 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, of Georgian, Russian, Scottish, Dutch, and Alaskan-Athabascan heritage. Classically trained in San Francisco, he continues to paint in this widely recognized, distinctive way, often blending artifacts and traditions of the past with contemporary items and settings. <br><br>The bowl depicted in the present example is from San Juan, a pueblo rich in a tradition of creating pottery vessels for functional use. Though the early elegant shapes and beautiful curves ended by the 1900s, they were revived in the 1930s and 1940s when local women studied ancient pottery from the area as a basis for a bowl such as the one depicted here. Rather than "San Juan," the native people prefer the traditional name Ohkay Owingeh which means "Place of the Strong People." When William Acheff painted his first centuries-old Pueblo pot shortly after arriving in Taos in 1973, he realized he could evoke the deep quiet he imagined earlier artists felt working in their time. Though the artist has no direct link to the Southwestern and Plains tribes whose artifacts he has collected and painted, he seeks to extend an appreciation for Native American traditions, human qualities of continuity, and a slower pace of life as well as what he calls, "the subtle relationships that are common to us all." Archeff was born in 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, of Georgian, Russian, Scottish, Dutch, and Alaskan-Athabascan heritage. Classically trained in San Francisco, he continues to paint in this widely recognized, distinctive way, often blending artifacts and traditions of the past with contemporary items and settings. <br><br>The bowl depicted in the present example is from San Juan, a pueblo rich in a tradition of creating pottery vessels for functional use. Though the early elegant shapes and beautiful curves ended by the 1900s, they were revived in the 1930s and 1940s when local women studied ancient pottery from the area as a basis for a bowl such as the one depicted here. Rather than "San Juan," the native people prefer the traditional name Ohkay Owingeh which means "Place of the Strong People." When William Acheff painted his first centuries-old Pueblo pot shortly after arriving in Taos in 1973, he realized he could evoke the deep quiet he imagined earlier artists felt working in their time. Though the artist has no direct link to the Southwestern and Plains tribes whose artifacts he has collected and painted, he seeks to extend an appreciation for Native American traditions, human qualities of continuity, and a slower pace of life as well as what he calls, "the subtle relationships that are common to us all." Archeff was born in 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, of Georgian, Russian, Scottish, Dutch, and Alaskan-Athabascan heritage. Classically trained in San Francisco, he continues to paint in this widely recognized, distinctive way, often blending artifacts and traditions of the past with contemporary items and settings. <br><br>The bowl depicted in the present example is from San Juan, a pueblo rich in a tradition of creating pottery vessels for functional use. Though the early elegant shapes and beautiful curves ended by the 1900s, they were revived in the 1930s and 1940s when local women studied ancient pottery from the area as a basis for a bowl such as the one depicted here. Rather than "San Juan," the native people prefer the traditional name Ohkay Owingeh which means "Place of the Strong People." When William Acheff painted his first centuries-old Pueblo pot shortly after arriving in Taos in 1973, he realized he could evoke the deep quiet he imagined earlier artists felt working in their time. Though the artist has no direct link to the Southwestern and Plains tribes whose artifacts he has collected and painted, he seeks to extend an appreciation for Native American traditions, human qualities of continuity, and a slower pace of life as well as what he calls, "the subtle relationships that are common to us all." Archeff was born in 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, of Georgian, Russian, Scottish, Dutch, and Alaskan-Athabascan heritage. Classically trained in San Francisco, he continues to paint in this widely recognized, distinctive way, often blending artifacts and traditions of the past with contemporary items and settings. <br><br>The bowl depicted in the present example is from San Juan, a pueblo rich in a tradition of creating pottery vessels for functional use. Though the early elegant shapes and beautiful curves ended by the 1900s, they were revived in the 1930s and 1940s when local women studied ancient pottery from the area as a basis for a bowl such as the one depicted here. Rather than "San Juan," the native people prefer the traditional name Ohkay Owingeh which means "Place of the Strong People." When William Acheff painted his first centuries-old Pueblo pot shortly after arriving in Taos in 1973, he realized he could evoke the deep quiet he imagined earlier artists felt working in their time. Though the artist has no direct link to the Southwestern and Plains tribes whose artifacts he has collected and painted, he seeks to extend an appreciation for Native American traditions, human qualities of continuity, and a slower pace of life as well as what he calls, "the subtle relationships that are common to us all." Archeff was born in 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, of Georgian, Russian, Scottish, Dutch, and Alaskan-Athabascan heritage. Classically trained in San Francisco, he continues to paint in this widely recognized, distinctive way, often blending artifacts and traditions of the past with contemporary items and settings. <br><br>The bowl depicted in the present example is from San Juan, a pueblo rich in a tradition of creating pottery vessels for functional use. Though the early elegant shapes and beautiful curves ended by the 1900s, they were revived in the 1930s and 1940s when local women studied ancient pottery from the area as a basis for a bowl such as the one depicted here. Rather than "San Juan," the native people prefer the traditional name Ohkay Owingeh which means "Place of the Strong People." When William Acheff painted his first centuries-old Pueblo pot shortly after arriving in Taos in 1973, he realized he could evoke the deep quiet he imagined earlier artists felt working in their time. Though the artist has no direct link to the Southwestern and Plains tribes whose artifacts he has collected and painted, he seeks to extend an appreciation for Native American traditions, human qualities of continuity, and a slower pace of life as well as what he calls, "the subtle relationships that are common to us all." Archeff was born in 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, of Georgian, Russian, Scottish, Dutch, and Alaskan-Athabascan heritage. Classically trained in San Francisco, he continues to paint in this widely recognized, distinctive way, often blending artifacts and traditions of the past with contemporary items and settings. <br><br>The bowl depicted in the present example is from San Juan, a pueblo rich in a tradition of creating pottery vessels for functional use. Though the early elegant shapes and beautiful curves ended by the 1900s, they were revived in the 1930s and 1940s when local women studied ancient pottery from the area as a basis for a bowl such as the one depicted here. Rather than "San Juan," the native people prefer the traditional name Ohkay Owingeh which means "Place of the Strong People."
Schüssel San Juan19866 5/8 x 11 5/8 Zoll.(16,83 x 29,53 cm) Öl auf Platte
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Als William Acheff kurz nach seiner Ankunft in Taos im Jahr 1973 sein erstes jahrhundertealtes Pueblo-Gefäß malte, erkannte er, dass er die tiefe Ruhe heraufbeschwören konnte, von der er sich vorstellte, dass frühere Künstler in ihrer Zeit arbeiteten. Obwohl der Künstler keine direkte Verbindung zu den Stämmen des Südwestens und der Prärie hat, deren Artefakte er gesammelt und gemalt hat, versucht er, eine Wertschätzung für die Traditionen der amerikanischen Ureinwohner, die menschlichen Qualitäten der Kontinuität und eines langsameren Lebensrhythmus sowie für das, was er als "die subtilen Beziehungen, die uns allen gemeinsam sind" bezeichnet, zu vermitteln. Archeff wurde 1947 in Anchorage, Alaska, als Sohn georgischer, russischer, schottischer, niederländischer und alaskanisch-athabaskischer Eltern geboren. Er wurde in San Francisco klassisch ausgebildet und malt weiterhin auf diese weithin anerkannte, unverwechselbare Weise, wobei er oft Artefakte und Traditionen der Vergangenheit mit zeitgenössischen Gegenständen und Schauplätzen vermischt.

Die hier gezeigte Schale stammt aus San Juan, einem Pueblo mit einer reichen Tradition in der Herstellung von Töpfergefäßen für den funktionalen Gebrauch. Obwohl die frühen eleganten Formen und schönen Rundungen in den 1900er Jahren ausstarben, wurden sie in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren wiederbelebt, als einheimische Frauen alte Töpferwaren aus der Gegend als Grundlage für eine Schale wie die hier abgebildete untersuchten. Anstelle von "San Juan" bevorzugen die Ureinwohner den traditionellen Namen Ohkay Owingeh, was "Ort des starken Volkes" bedeutet.
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