Karl Bodmer
![Bodmer depicted in a [[Woodburytype]] portrait in 1877](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Photograph_of_Karl_Bodmer_%281877%29.jpg)
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.
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. Provided by Wikipedia
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