Harald Pager

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Harald Pager (born December 30, 1923 in Römerstadt , Czechoslovakia , † July 1, 1985 in Windhoek , Namibia ) was a graphic artist and researcher of prehistoric rock carvings in southern Africa.

Life

Harald Pager, son of a lawyer couple, was born in Römerstadt ( Rýmařov in today's Czech Republic ) in 1923 and grew up in Austria . After doing military service during the Second World War , he studied art in Graz . In 1952 he emigrated to South Africa . In Johannesburg he worked as a commercial artist and got married.

After seeing photographs of petroglyphs , he visited numerous prehistoric rock art sites. From 1967 he lived with his wife near the Ndedema grotto in the Drakensberg , whose rock engravings he copied for two years using a process he had developed himself. The result was published in Graz in 1971.

After the publication of his second book in 1975, Pager received an offer from the Institute for Prehistory at the University of Cologne to document the rock drawings of the Brandberg massif . He devoted himself to this task until the end of his life. Pager copied around 45,000 petroglyphs at 879 sites.

Harold Pager died of cancer in Windhoek in 1985. His work from Brandberg was published in several volumes from 1989 to 2006 by the Cologne Heinrich Barth Institute. In 2016 it was published online by the African Archeology Archive Cologne.

Works

  • 1971: Ndedema. A documentation of the rock paintings of the Ndedema Gorge.
  • 1975: Stone Age. Myth and Magic as documented in the rock paintings of South Africa.
  • 1989-2006: The Rock Paintings of the Upper Brandberg,
    • 1989: Vol. I.
    • 1993: Vol. II.
    • 1995: Vol. III.
    • 1998: Vol. IV.
    • 2000: Vol. V.
    • 2006: Vol. VI.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Harald Pager on the pages of the Namibiana Book Depot
  2. ↑ Peter Felix Schäfer: In memoriam Harald Pager on hike-wild: Hiking Worldwide, 2011
  3. ^ Mathias Lange: Tilman Lenssen-Erz and Marie-Theres Erz: Brandberg - The Bilderberg of Namibia . Archaeological Information 23/1, 2000, 122–126
  4. ↑ ARACHNE object database , accessed on September 30, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Pager, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian graphic artist and researcher of prehistoric rock drawings
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Roman city , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1985
Place of death Windhoek , Namibia