Frederick Weygold (1870 1941), American artist and self-trained ethnographer, is today almost unknown outside German-speaking Europe. This book, based upon the voluminous body of his paintings, drawings, and papers held by the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, and upon research in American and European museums and archives, offers for the first time a comprehensive account of Weygold s life and achievements as an artist, collector, educator, and social activist.
Born in St. Charles, Missouri, Weygold studied languages and art in Germany and Philadelphia before settling in...