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Péhriska-Rúhpa, Hidatsa Man by Karl Bodmer (1809–1893), 1834. Watercolor and graphite on paper, 17 1/8 by 12 inches.
All objects illustrated are in Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, gift of the Enron Art Foundation; all photographs are © Bruce White, 2019.
Decades before the wildly popular German writer Karl May (1842–1912) entranced European readers with his fanciful tales of Native Americans (despite never having set foot in the American West), a scholarly German prince, Maximilian of Wied (1782–1867), came here to do the serious work of documenting tribal life along the Missouri River. Accompanied by Karl Bodmer, a young Swiss artist in his employ, the prince arrived in 1832 with a sense of urgency, keenly aware of the mutability of Native cultures in the face of Manifest Destiny: “the beginning of settlement,” he wrote, “is always the destruction of everything else.”
Exhibition of Karl Bodmer s portraits of Indigenous Americans opens at The Met
Hotokáneheh, Piegan Blackfoot Man, 1833. Watercolor and graphite on paper, 11 15/16 x 17 1/16 in. 1986.49.288 Joslyn Art Museum, Gift of the Enron Art Foundation, 1986.
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.- Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits will present a compelling visual response to Native North America through watercolors created in the 1830s by the Swiss draftsman Karl Bodmer (18091893). Bodmer was one of the most accomplished and prolific European artists to travel the Missouri River, and one of the first to document both the landscapes of the American interior and its Indigenous peoples.
The exhibitionon view at The Met from April 5 through July 25, 2021is the first to focus primarily on Bodmers portraiture. It will feature 35 portraits along with 6 landscape and genre scenes and several aquatints, all from Joslyn Art Museums comprehensive Bodmer holdings. The works will be arranged in three gallery s
Exhibition of Karl Bodmerâs Watercolor Portraits of Indigenous Americans Opens at The Met
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Karl Bodmer (Swiss, Riesbach 1809â1893 Barbizon). Péhriska-Rúhpa, Hidatsa Man, 1834. Watercolor and graphite on paper, 17 1/8 x 11 15/16 in. Joslyn Art Museum, Gift of the Enron Art Foundation (1986.49.275)
Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits presents a compelling visual response to Native North America through watercolors created in the 1830s by the Swiss draftsman Karl Bodmer (1809â1893). Bodmer was one of the most accomplished and prolific European artists to travel the Missouri River, and one of the first to document both the landscapes of the American interior and its Indigenous peoples.
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