Art Treasures of Nebraska - Karl Bodmer

"Mato-Tope (Four Bears) Mandan Chief (1834)" Karl Bodmer captured the character and pride of native people (and their leaders) in a series of watercolor portraits that became models for the prints that illustrated Maximilian zu Wied's book, "Travels in the Interior of North America." Bodmer's pioneering watercolors are art treasures of Nebraska at the Joslyn Art Museum.

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[maple1255]

Beautiful and sensitive portraits of Native American people. It staggers the mind to think of how endless the beauty was in the 19th century, and of course long before Europeans arrived. Now we are at a point, with 7 billion human beings and climbing, where we can truly use those early lessons about living in balance with nature.

[exenrontexas]

You can thank Willis Strauss the fomrer CEO or Internorth for this collection. He rescue it from caves in Germany and brought it to Omaha and funded the research. It was NOT his fault that Internorth was hijacked by Ken Lay and turned into ENRON.

[Bildbank]

Very nice -- you should see the documentary

of the German Christoph Geott and his team about the Mandan ... Volker Glaeser on camera..