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Prince Maximilian was an enlightened man with a restless spirit. He devised expeditions of a scientific, botanical, zoological, ethnographic and anthropological nature.
Johann Karl Bodmer was hired as an artist by Maximilian to accompany his expedition and record images of cities, rivers, towns, and villages he saw along the way, including the many Native American tribes along the Missouri River and in that region.
Bodmer was a Swiss printmaker, engraver, lithographer, zinc engraver, draftsman, painter, illustrator and hunter. He is known in the United States as a painter who captured the American West in the 19th century. He painted extremely precise works of its inhabitants and landscape. He accompanied the German explorer Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied from 1832 to 1834 on his expedition to the Missouri River.
