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Karl Bodmer
Bodmer depicted in a Woodburytype portrait in 1877
Born
Karl Bodmer
11 February 1809
Zürich, Switzerland
Died
30 October 1893(1893-10-30) (aged 84)
Paris, France
Nationality
Swiss and French
Patron(s)
Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied
Johann Carl Bodmer[1] (11 February 1809 – 30 October 1893) was a Swiss-French printmaker, etcher, lithographer, zinc engraver, draughtsman, painter, illustrator, and hunter. Known as Karl Bodmer in literature and paintings, his name was recorded as Johann Karl Bodmer and Jean-Charles Bodmer, respectively. After 1843, likely as a result of the birth of his son Charles-Henry Barbizon, he began to sign his works K Bodmer.
Bodmer was well known in Germany for his watercolours, drawings, and aquatints of cities and landscapes of the Rhine, Mosel, and Lahn rivers. After he moved to France following his return from an expedition in the American West, he became a member of the Barbizon School, a French landscape painting group from the mid-19th century. He created many oil paintings with animal and landscape motifs, wood engravings, drawings, and book illustrations. For his work, Bodmer was made a Knight in the French Legion of Honour in 1877.
He is best known in the United States as a painter who captured the American frontier of the 19th century. He painted extremely accurate works of its inhabitants and landscape. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied from 1832 through 1834 on his Missouri River expedition. Bodmer was hired as an artist by Maximilian in order to accompany his expedition and record images of cities, rivers, towns, and peoples they saw along the way, including the many tribes of Native Americans along the Missouri River and in that region.[2]
Bodmer had 81 aquatints made from his work to illustrate Prince Maximilian's book, Maximilian Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, published in 1839 in German and in English in 1843.
and hunter. Known as KarlBodmer in literature and paintings, his name was recorded as Johann KarlBodmer and Jean-Charles Bodmer, respectively. After...
of 1833 and 1834, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied and Swiss artist KarlBodmer stayed with the Mandan. 18th-century reports about characteristics of...
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Catlin, who remained with them several months in 1832. He was followed by KarlBodmer, a Swiss painter accompanying German explorer Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied...
and naturalist, Prince Maximilian. Along with the naturalist painter KarlBodmer, the Europeans painted portraits and recorded their meeting with the...
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painted accurate paintings of Native American culture. Swiss artist KarlBodmer made compelling landscapes and portraits. John James Audubon (1785–1851)...
Sprache der Glasperlen. NONAM, Zürich 2010. German. KarlBodmer: A Swiss Artist in America / KarlBodmer: Ein Schweizer Künstler in Amerika. Scheidegger &...
Illustration of a Snake woman (left) and a Cree woman (right), c. 1840–1843, KarlBodmer At one time the Cree lived in northern Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana...
placed like this during his travel up Missouri River in 1833. Picture by KarlBodmer. A tree burial and a scaffold – used by a number of Indians in North...
collection as well as art and artifacts from Indigenous cultures. In 1986 the KarlBodmer collection, initially on loan to the museum, was donated and became part...
Blood Indians, War chief of the Piekann Indians and a Koutani Indian, by KarlBodmer Stsimaki (Reluctant-to-be-woman) - Blood by Edward S. Curtis Apio-mita...
States (by length of the main span). An 1832 view of The Narrows by KarlBodmer with Fort Lafayette visible off the Brooklyn shore The Verrazzano-Narrows...
1832 to 1834 to North America, accompanied by the Swiss painter KarlBodmer. Bodmer's portraits of North Dakota, Ohio River and Missouri River Indians...
of Wied-Neuwied and Swiss painter KarlBodmer spent months with the Niitsitapi to get a sense of their culture. Bodmer portrayed their society in paintings...
"The interior of the hut of a Mandan Chief": aquatint by KarlBodmer from the book "Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America...
Arikara An Arikara warrior, ca. 1840–1843, by KarlBodmer Total population 792 (2010 census) Regions with significant populations North Dakota Languages...
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