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Karl Bodmer
(1809 - 1893),
real name: Johann
Carl Bodmer
Swiss-French
painter, draughtsman,
illustrator
and graphic
artist
Special
Sales Exhibition
on the occasion
of the
200th
anniversary
of Karl Bodmer's
day of birth
Please,
click on a picture
for more information.
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BT 0189
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BT 0589
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BT 0889
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Forest Scene
on the Lehigh
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Mouth of
Fox-River
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A Sioux Warrior
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BT 1089
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BT 1389
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Dacota Woman
and Assiniboin
Girl
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Fort Pierre
on the Missouri
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A Mandan
Chief
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On the occasion
of the 200th
anniversary
of Karl Bodmer's
day of birth
we
can offer you
in a Special
Sales Exhibition:
45 original
aquatints, etchings
and copper engravings
from the first
editions of
Maximilian Prince
of Wied’s “Travels
in the Interior
of North America,
1832-1834”.
The first German
edition was
published between
1837 and 1841
by Jakob Hölscher
in Koblenz,
the first French
edition from
1840 until 1843
by Arthus Bertrand
in Paris, and
the first English
edition 1843
and 1844 by
Ackermann &
Co in London.
All illustrations
had been published
in a separate
volume as aquatints,
etchings and
copper engravings
after the drawings
and watercolour
paintings by
Karl Bodmer
(1809-1893),
48 as large
plates (called
Tableaus) and
33 as smaller
pictures (called
Vignettes).
The engravings
and etchings
had been produced
by different
artists in Zurich,
Paris and London.
The production
of the plates,
which took about
10 years, was
supervised by
Karl Bodmer
himself.
In addition
we can offer
you 2 lithographs
by J. Honegger
after Karl Bodmer,
from the “Naturgeschichte”
by the Swiss
scientist Heinrich
Rudolf Schinz
(1777-1861),
published in
1845 (BT 0889
and BT 1389)
and
2 original
watercolours
painted by an
artist at court
of the Maharaja
of Tonk, Northern-India,
in the second
half of the
19th century
(BT 2389 W and
BT 4589 W).
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BT 1789
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BT 2089
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BT 2189
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Pehriska-Ruhpa
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Mandan Indians
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Indian Utensils
and Arms
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BT 2389
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BT 2389
W
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BT 2489
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Pehriska-Ruhpa
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Pehriska-Ruhpa
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Addih-Hiddisch
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Karl Bodmer
(1809-1893)
- Biography
Swiss-French
painter, draughtsman,
illustrator
and graphic
artist
Karl Bodmer
was a pupil
of his uncle
Johann Jakob
Meier (1787-1858),
a well known
landscape painter
and engraver
in Zurich. First
Karl Bodmer
worked for the
publishing house
F.S. Füssli
in Zurich. 1828
he moved to
Koblenz, where
his “Malerische
Ansichten der
Mosel, des Rheins
und der Lahn”
had been published
by Jakob Hölscher
as hand-coloured
aquatints.
In 1832 he
travelled as
a scientific
draughtsman
together with
Prince Maximilian
zu Wied-Neuwied
and the preparator
David Dreidoppel
to North America.
The expedition
took 28 months
and brought
them to the
regions of North
America, west
of the Mississippi
River, where
the Indian tribes
lived. In many
impressive watercolour
paintings Karl
Bodmer documented
the landscape,
plants and animals,
but especially
the Native Americans
of North America
at that time.
He made more
than 400 sketches
and watercolour
paintings, which
he brought back
to Germany in
1834.
This pictures
are recognized
meanwhile as
among the most
painstakingly
accurate painted
images ever
made of Native
Americans, their
culture and
artefacts. Today
the majority
of his original
watercolours
are located
in three collections
in the United
States, at the
Joslyn Art Museum
in Omaha, Nebraska,
the Newberry
Library Bodmer
Collection in
Chicago, and
the Baltimore
Museum of Art.
In 1835 Karl
Bodmer moved
to Paris. From
there he supervised
the production
of the illustrations
for the travel
book “Reise
in das innere
Nord-America
in den Jahren
1832 bis 1834”
wrote by Maximilian
Prince of Wied-Neuwied
(Maximilian
Prince of Wied’s
Travels in the
Interior of
North America).
From Bodmer's
watercolour
paintings, he
brought from
the journey,
the Prince had
chosen 81 to
be published
as aquatints
together with
his book in
a separate atlas.
From 1848/49
Karl Bodmer
mainly lived
in Barbizon.
He became a
French citizen
and an influential
member of the
Barbizon school
of painters.
He lived and
worked together
with such famous
artist like
Peter Burnitz,
Théodore Rousseau
and Jean-Francois
Millet. Together
with Millet
he created lithographs
on American
history, commissioned
by an American
citizen from
St. Louis. In
1876 Karl Bodmer
became a Knight
(Chevalier)
of the “National
Order of the
Legion of Honour”
(“Ordre national
de la Légion
d'honneur”).
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BT 2989
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BT 3089
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BT 3289
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Yellowstone
/ Missouri
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Tombs of
Assiniboin Indians
on Trees
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Assiniboin
Indians
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BT 3689
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BT 3889
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BT 4489
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Hunting of
the Grizzly
Bear
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Camp of the
Gros Ventres
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Rocky Mountains
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BT 4589
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BT 4589 W
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BT 4889
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Blackfoot
Chief and
Piékann
Chief
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Piékann Chief
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Indian Utensils
and Arms
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Special
exhibition on
the occasion
of the 200th
birthday (Feb.
11th, 1809)
of
Karl Bodmer
in Zurich:
From February
8th until November
8th, 2009 the
“NONAM, Nordamerika
Native Museum”
in Zürich, Seefeldstr.
317 shows in
the special
exhibition “Karl
Bodmer – ein
Schweizer Künstler
in Amerika”
all 81 aquatints
(some of them
in different
variants) pulished
with Maximilian
Prince of Wied’s
Travels in the
Interior of
North America
(“Reise in das
innere Nord-America
in den Jahren
1832 bis 1834”)
and valuable
items from the
Prince of Wied’s
collection (from
Berlin and Stuttgart).
Probably
the most comprehensive
exhibition about
Karl Bodmer
ever shown in
Europe.
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BV 0189
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BV 0289
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BV 0389
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Boston Lighthouse
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The Delaware
near Bordentown
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View of Bethlehem
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BV 0489
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BV 0589
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BV 0689
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Forest Scene
on the Tobihanna
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View of Mauch-Chunk
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Penitentiary
near Pittsburgh
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BV 0789
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BV 0889
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BV 0989
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Cave-in-Rock
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Cutoff-River
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Tower-Rock
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BV 1189
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BV 1289
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BV 1489
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Punka Indians
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Washinga
Sahba's Grave
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Offering
of the Mandan
Indians
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BV 1589
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BV 1789
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BV 2089
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Magic Pile
near Fort Union
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Beaver Hut
on the Missouri
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Chief of
the Gros Ventres
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BV 2189
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BV 2789
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BV 2989
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The Elkhorn
Pyramid
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An Arrikkara
Warrior
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Dog-sledges
of the Mandan
Indians
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BV 3189
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Bellvue
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Literature:
Nordamerika
Native Museum
Zürich: Karl
Bodmer. A Swiss
Artist in America.
1809–1893.Ein
Schweizer Künstler
in Amerika.
Ausstellungskatalog.
Verlag Scheidegger
& Spiess,
Zürich 2009.
Peter Bolz:
Karl Bodmer,
Heinrich Rudolf
Schinz und die
Veränderung
des Indianerbilds
in Europa. In:
Karl Bodmer.
Ein Schweizer
Künstler in
Amerika. Nordamerika
Native Museum
Zürich, 2009.
Stephen S.
Witte, Marsha
V. Gallagher
(ed.): The North
American Journals
of Prince Maximilian
of Wied. Volume
I: May 1832-April
1833. Joslyn
Art Museum,
Omaha (Nebraska)
2008.
Brandon K.
Ruud (ed.):
Karl Bodmer's
North American
Prints. Joslyn
Art Museum,
Omaha (Nebraska)
2004.
Petra Lamers-Schütze
(ed.): The American
Indian. Karl
Bodmer. Verlag
Taschen, Köln
2005.
Sonja Schierle:
Die Reise in
das innere Nord-America.
Faszination
und Realität
indianischer
Kulturen. In:
The American
Indian. Karl
Bodmer. Verlag
Taschen, Köln
2005.
Hans Läng:
Der Indianer-Bodmer.
Sammlung für
Völkerkunde.
Stiftung St.
Galler Museen,
St. Gallen 1992.
David C.
Hunt, William
J. Orr, W. H.
Goetzmann (ed.):
Karl Bodmer’s
America. Joslyn
Art Museum,
Omaha (Nebraska)
1984.
Hans Läng:
Indianer waren
meine Freunde.
Leben und Werk
Karl Bodmers
1809–1893. S.
175–183. Verlag
Hallwag, Bern/Stuttgart
1976.
Maximilian
zu Wied-Neuwied:
Maximilian Prince
of Wied’s Travels
in the Interior
of North America,
during the years
1832–1834; Übersetzung
von H. Evans
Lloyd; Achermann
& Comp.,
London 1843–1844.
Maximilian
zu Wied-Neuwied:
Voyage dans
l’interieur
de L’Amérique
du Nord exécuté
pendant les
années 1832,
1833 et 1834.
Arthus Bertrand,
Paris 1840–1843.
Maximilian
zu Wied-Neuwied:
Reise in das
innere Nord-America
in den Jahren
1832 bis 1834,
2 Textbände
und 1 Bildatlas
mit Illustrationen
von Karl Bodmer,
J. Hölscher,
Koblenz 1839–1841.
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