Jean-Louis Goldwater Bourgeois
Jean-Louis Goldwater Bourgeois (* 1940 ) is an American author, human rights activist and multimillionaire.
Life
Jean-Louis Goldwater Bourgeois was born in 1940 to the French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois and the art historian Robert Goldwater . Goldwater Bourgeois studied architecture, history and literature at Harvard University. He won the Bowdoin Prize with an essay on labyrinths . In 1969 and 1970 Bourgeois worked for the ArtForum before he became more interested in Mud Brick architecture. He is considered an expert on art history.
Commitment to Native Americans
Goldwater Bourgeois is deeply committed to helping America's First Americans . Since 2006 he has supported an organization of the Lenape Tribe with US $ 4 million. The tribe used it to buy back a house in downtown Manhattan , underneath which is Holy Earth with references to their ancestors. He was also involved in the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean-Louis Goldwater Bourgeois: 10 Things You Didn't Know . In: Money Inc . January 5, 2017 ( moneyinc.com [accessed January 15, 2017]).
- ↑ Jen Offord: Manhattan millionaire Jean-Louis Goldwater Bourgeois to give $ 4m house to Native American tribe . In: International Business Times UK . December 18, 2016 ( ibtimes.co.uk [accessed January 15, 2017]).
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SURNAME | Bourgeois, Jean-Louis Goldwater |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American author, human rights activist and multimillionaire |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1940 |