All Charles Ferdinand Wimar's oil paintings
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The Buffalo Dance |
mk77
1860
Oil on canvas
24 7/8x49 5/8in
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| Charles Ferdinand Wimar
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| German-born American Painter
b.1828 d.1862
was a painter of Western Native Americans and buffaloes. Born in Siegenburg, Germany, came to America at the age of 15, settled with his parents in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1846 he began studying painting with Leon Pomarede and went with his master on a trip up the Mississippi River. In 1852 he went to the D??sseldorf Academy to study with Emanuel Leutze. Wimar returned to St. Louis in 1856. He primarily occupied himself with the themes of Indian life, buffalo herds, life in the Great Plains, the theme of the wagon trains. He made three trips to the headwaters of the Mississippi.
. Related Artists to : | John Hamilton Mortimer | Ilya Repin | catalan school | Master of Virgo inter Virgines | Jules Joseph Lefebvre | |
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