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Birth
1806 (Canton Bern, Switzerland)
Death
1834 (St. Louis, Missouri)
Lived/Active
Missouri/Wisconsin / Canada
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frontier-Indian genre sketches, portrait painting
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| An early specialist in watercolor scenes of frontier life, Peter
Rindisbacher is credited as being "the first pioneer artist
recording genre of Western Indians". (Samuels, 400).
He was born in Upper Emmenthal, Canton Bern in Switzerland in 1806, and
received some art training before moving in 1821 with his family to
western Canada where they joined a colony on the Red River
settled by the Earl of Selkirk. Along the way during the trip,
Rindisbacher sket (showing 500 of 2658 characters). |
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