Karl Bodmer: Encampment of The Travellers on The Missouri

Among the many painters of the early American West—of Native Americans, landscape, wildlife—no artist is more admired and renowned than Karl Bodmer. Here, for the first time, carefully prepared and painstakingly reproduced, is the full range of Bodmer's American work, printed in 359 plates, 257 in full color and 102 ...more

In 1832–34 German scientist Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied traveled the interior regions of North America to document what he regarded as vanishing cultures. Accompanying him was the twenty-two-year-old Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809–93), whom Maximilian employed to create a “faithful and vivid image” of America and its people. Upon their ...more

In 1832 looking to gather images and information about native Americans and their customs, Maximillian Prince of Wied travelled with Swiss painter Karl Bodmer across North America; Wied's travel experiences were published in 1840, his text printed in two volumes and 81 of Bodmers illustrations were published as a portfolio.; ...more

To document the natural history and inhabitants of the American West, Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied selected the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to accompany him on his 1833-34 expedition up the Missouri River. Beginning in St. Louis, they journeyed as far as inland waterways could take them, through present-day Nebraska, South ...more

George Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio, McKenney & Hall's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, and Prince Maximilian's Travels in the Interior of North America between 1832 and 1834 were the first prints and paintings to preserve images of Native Americans before their culture was affected by Europeans. ...more

Tribal times. Karl Bodmer, American Indian provides a rare and privileged look at Native American life and customs before the invention of photography. Extensive travels, from 1832 to 1834, conducted by Maximilian Prince of Wied and Swiss painter Karl Bodmer through the inner Parts of North America resulted in the ...more

Traveling among the tribes in the Upper Missouri area during the 1830s, Swiss artist Karl Bodmer painted spectacular landscapes and striking portraits of Native Americans. This superb collection reproduces 24 paintings from that magnificent series, including Mandan Shrine, Teton Sioux Woman, Buffalo and Elk on the Upper Missouri, and Skin ...more

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the expedition of the German prince Maximilian of Wied and the Swiss artist Karl Bodmer to North America, the traveling exhibition “Views of a Vanishing Frontier” visually recreates the historic journey into the early-nineteenth-century wilderness. The show was organized by the Joslyn Art Museum, where ...more