Karl Ferdinand Wimar
Painting, Visual Artist
1828 – 1862
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Who was Karl Ferdinand Wimar?
Karl Ferdinand Wimar, was a German-American painter who concentrated on Native Americans in the West and the great herds of buffalo.
He is known for an early painting of a colonial incident: his The Abduction of Boone's Daughter by the Indians, a depiction of the 1776 capture near Boonesborough, Kentucky of Jemima Boone and two other girls by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party.
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- Born
- Feb 20, 1828
Siegburg - Nationality
- United States of America
- Germany
- Education
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- Lived in
- St. Louis
- Died
- Nov 28, 1862
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on July 23, 2013
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