Related Paintings of Luca Giordano :. | The Last Communion of St Jerome | The Little Parisienne | Cortile arabo | Dead Partridge | The Happy Accidents of the Swing | Related Artists: Raffaello Botticini 1477-1520
Charles Ferdinand Wimar 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. Sir james dromgole linton,P.R.I. 1840-1916