20 Facts About Alexander Weygers

Alexander George Weygers was a polymath Dutch-American artist who is best known as a sculptor, painter, print maker, blacksmith, carpenter, philosopher, mechanical engineer, aerospace engineer and author.

Alexander Weygers's mother taught literature and several languages at a high school in Surabaya.

Alexander Weygers graduated from Groningen Politechnicum in mechanical engineering and from a Dordrecht vocational university in shipbuilding.

Alexander Weygers briefly attended the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.

Alexander Weygers returned to Java in 1923, and his fiancee, Jacoba Hutter, joined him there from the Netherlands in 1924, where they married.

Alexander Weygers created one of his most notable sculptures, Mourning, that caught the attention of world-renowned sculptor Lorado Taft in which he won a scholarship at Lorado Taft Midway Studios in Chicago.

Alexander Weygers received a patent from the US Patent Office for his discopter in 1944 and his design has served as the prototype for other similar disk and hovering aircraft that have been developed up to the present day.

Alexander Weygers developed a printmaking process that she named "imprints from nature", using natural materials such as flowers, leaves, and grass as well as rocks and insects.

Alex and Marian Alexander Weygers relocated to the Monterey Peninsula in the 1960s and settled into their former retreat in Carmel Valley that then served as their home and studios.

In 1937 Alexander Weygers was recognized with a solo exhibition at the Cliff Hotel in San Francisco and was featured at the Oakland Art Gallery.

Alexander Weygers's work was accepted into the San Francisco Art Association exhibitions of 1937 and 1938.

Alexander Weygers commands attention because he is a success by any standard of excellence in half a dozen professions.

Alexander Weygers is blacksmith, machinist, carpenter, electrician, plumber, toolmaker, and beekeeper.

Alexander Weygers is further a teacher and a reluctant prophet upon whom the admiring descend.

Alexander Weygers made numerous detailed drawings of the aircraft portrayed in various American cities - specifically, San Francisco and Chicago.

Alexander Weygers sent these detailed plans to all the branches of the US Military and was eventually told that they were intrigued by the concept and the design of the craft but were not prepared at that time because the war effort superseded its development.

One of his students, Peter B Partch, states that Weygers equated Nature with the concepts of deity among human cultures, and defined Nature as "the all-encompassing truth motivating all universal unseen forces, being self-governing and creating rock, plant, and animal evolution bound".

Further, he relates that Alexander Weygers advocated that one should "live life to the fullest", by which he meant doing what one desires in life "for the love of it" rather than for fame or financial gain.

Alexander Weygers advocated the reuse of waste materials cast off as useless trash by contemporary societies by adapting them to other needs or making artistic creations with them.

Alexander Weygers died in 2017, and his efforts are documented in Ashlee Vance's 2018 article, "The Forgotten Legend of Silicon Valley's Flying Saucer Man".