Georg Schaefer

This article deals with the painter Georg Schaefer. For other people see Georg Schäfer .

Georg Schaefer (born March 25, 1926 in Leinefelde , † January 11, 1990 in Chatham , Massachusetts ; stage names were Oma Ziegenfuss and Georg Shepherd ) was a German-American painter and author .

Life

During the Second World War he was imprisoned by the National Socialists for his work in the Danish underground and held in a concentration camp . After the war he worked as a freelance journalist for Spiegel and Die Welt . He was in contact with personalities such as Carl Gustav Jung , Albert Einstein , Albert Hoffman and Anagarika Govinda , the founder of the Arya Maitreya Mandala .

Through his work he met Nan Cuz (* 1927), an assistant photographer of the world from Guatemala , whom he later married. In 1953 he founded the German Child Protection Association with his wife and a few friends . In 1968 Georg Schäfers and Nan Cuz published a joint book “Im Reiche des Meskal”, an illustrated fairy tale for adults based on Indian folklore and the Tibetan Book of the Dead . A short time later it became a cult book of the German hippie movement and was translated into several languages.

In 1973 they both moved to Guatemala, where he founded an arts center in Panajachel . In 1978 he left his wife and went to the USA to promote his work there.

In 1979 he married Sherry Munson of the Munson Gallery in Santa Fe , New Mexico . Together with his second wife, whom he called “Mani”, he went to Sri Lanka to restore the Buddha story in the temple of Nyaniponika Mahathera . After completing their work, they returned to Guatemala and lived with the Maya to learn from their culture and art and to combine them with the art style gained in Sri Lanka. After a few years in which u. a. When two children were born, they realized that they were “destroying the original culture with the feet of progress”.

So they moved to the USA again in 1989 to solicit support in the fight against the destruction of Indian culture. They settled in Chatham, Massachusetts. His health was badly damaged at this point and after 18 months he had his first heart attack. After a short recovery period, he organized an exhibition of his works in Seattle , which, however, again put his health under severe strain, so that he succumbed to a second case of heart failure on January 11, 1990, just two weeks after the birth of his youngest son, whom he named after Lama Govinda named.

Fonts

• In the Realm of Mescal : An Indian Legend. Georg Schäfer (author), Nan Cuz (illustrations). Synthesis, Essen 1968, ISBN 978-3-922026-13-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ With the eyes of an Indian woman, with the tongue of a German. The Guatemalan painter Nan Cuz . ( RTF ; 53 kB) broadcast by Südwestrundfunk

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