Ruth Deutsch Lechuga
Ruth Deutsch Lechuga (born February 6, 1920 in Vienna , † September 19, 2004 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican doctor , anthropologist and photographer .
Life
Ruth Deutsch spent her childhood and youth in Vienna, where she also graduated from high school in 1938 . In 1939, with the help of relatives, her family managed to emigrate to Mexico , the country that her father Arnold Deutsch had always admired. From 1940 to 1946 she studied medicine and received her doctorate in 1946.
Together with her father, from whom she took an interest in Mexican folk art, she began to explore the country. Over the years she built up one of the most extensive anthropological collections in Latin America. Their collection included masks , dolls , textiles, ceramics and handicrafts made from sheet metal and wood . The collection was housed in a private museum in the Edificio Condesa, an Art Nouveau residential building near Chapultepec Castle in the country's capital . Shortly before her death, she bequeathed the collection to the Mexican Museum Franz Mayer . In 1954, she acquired Mexican citizenship .
From 1965 to 1979 she ran her own clinical-serological laboratory. From 1973 her work focused entirely on anthropology and ethnographic photography. In 1956 she was one of the founders of the photo group "La Ventana". She worked in numerous collective exhibitions, solo exhibitions, etc. a. 1964 at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Mexico. Her photos - the archive contains more than 20,000 negatives - can be found in important ethnological collections in Mexico, the USA and Italy.
Fonts
- Fiestas in Mexico: Complete Guide to Celebrations throughout the Country. México, DF 1978.
- Las técnicas textiles en el Méxica indígena. Ibid. 1982.
- El traje de los indígenas en México. Ibid. 1990, 4th ed. 1997. ISBN 968-38-0004-1
- Máscaras tradicionales de México. Ibid. 1991.
- Mask Arts of Mexico. San Francisco 1998. (together with Sayer, Chloë) ISBN 0-8118-0811-4
- Masks of Mexico: Tigers, Devils, and the Dance of Life. Santa Fe 1999. (together with Mauldin, Barbara) ISBN 0-89013-325-5
- Behind the Mask in Mexico. Museum of New Mexico Press, December 1988. ISBN 0-89013-189-9
literature
- Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century . Volume 1: A-I. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 225 f.
- Ursula Seeber: Ruth Deutsch de Lechuga. In: Brigitta Keintzel, Ilse Korotin (ed.): Scientists in and from Austria. Life - work - work. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 3-205-99467-1 , p. 132f.
- Jose Antonio Rodriguez: Ruth D. Lechuga, Una Memoria Mexicana (Coleccion USO y Estilo). Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City 2002, ISBN 970-683-056-1 .
Web links
- German de Lechuga Ruth, geb. German on biografi, the biographical database and lexicon of Austrian women
- Dr. med. Ruth Deutsch Lechuga from Vienna (1920–2004) on People Writing History
- About the The Ruth D. Lechuga Museum (Engl.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lechuga, Ruth German |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lechuga, Ruth D. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican doctor, anthropologist and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 19, 2004 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |