Katarína Taikon Langhammer
created: 08. 07. 2021 10:46 modified: 08. 07. 2021 10:51
The author of the portrait is the Romani artist Jozef Fečo. The portrait is one of the outcomes of the project Roma Theater – Secret Values of the Largest Minority in the Visegrad Region (2020); the project was supported by the International Visegrad Fund. The portrait is painted on canvas, the genre is street art. The measures of the portrait are 100 cm x 120 cm. The picture is in the frame.
KATARINA TAIKON LANGHAMMER
She was born on July 29, 1932, Almby, Sweden. She was a Swedish Roma activist, leader of the civil rights movement, writer and actress, from the Roma group Kalderash. The sister of the jeweler Rosa Taikon. Through her political and media activity, she fought for the acquisition of civil rights for the Roma in Sweden. She managed to change the main stereotypical views of the major society through her literary work; between the years 1963 and 1980 she published 16 sequels of children's books about the Roma girl Katitzi. Her stories are still very popular, even films were made of them. Katarina Taikon, for her political activism, is often compared to Martin Luther King. She died on 30 December 1995, Ytterhogdal, Sweden.
author: Jozef Fečo
copyright: State Scientific Library in Prešov
recorded: 30. 11. 2020
category: fine arts
tags: secular material artistic 2D artifact painting Jozef Fečo Katarína Taikon general audience internal
