Charles Wimar

Charles Wimar emigrated in 1843 at the age of 15 years with his family in the United States and settled in St. Louis, then a frontier town and a... more

by Charles Wimar

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Charles Wimar

Artist

Charles Wimar

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Charles Wimar emigrated in 1843 at the age of 15 years with his family in the United States and settled in St. Louis, then a frontier town and a center of the American fur trade. After an apprenticeship at a house and boat house painter, he studied from 1846 to 1850 under the guidance of Leon de Pomarede painting. An inheritance enabled him, in 1852 after Dusseldorf to go to art study. Private lessons received from Wimar Joseph Fay and Emanuel Leutze, the latter as a German-American. 23 paintings made ​​Wimar alone in Dusseldorf, particularly representations of conflicts American settlers with Indians who were issued with great success in Elberfeld, Hannover, Cologne and St. Louis. In order to depict the Indians as faithfully as possible, he had to send up their clothes and utensils from his parents from Missouri. In 1853 he created the first version of the painting The Abduction of Daniel Boone's daughter by Indians, where he processed an event from the year 1776th In 1855 he repeated the motif. In September 1854 Wimar moved into a studio in the house of Oswald Achenbach, in which Worthington Whittredge, Henry Lewis, Joseph Fay and Emanuel Leutze worked. As a member of the Artists Association paintbox Wimar was involved in the social life of the Düsseldorf; in a local artist staging of "Operagout" Pannemann's dream, he played the Nationalallegorie America.

In 1856 he returned to St. Louis and took in the years 1858 and 1859 two expeditions along the Missouri River, the Mississippi River and the Yellowstone River, where he documented the colonization of the American West and its indigenous people in pictures. Early 1860s received Wimar commissioned to create murals for the rotunda of the courthouse of St. Louis. Shortly after completing this work, he died in 1862 at the Tuberculosis.

His works are considered important exhibits of the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Has great importance because of his oeuvre particular ethnographic interest in the Indians. Wimar is considered the forerunner of painters like Frederic Remington and Charles Schreyvogel, also presented the life and landscapes of the American West at the center of her painting.

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November 29th, 2015