Karl Ferdinand Wimar

Karl Ferdinand Wimar, in the United States called Charles Wimar ( born February 20, 1828 in Siegburg, † November 28, 1862 in St. Louis, Missouri ) was a German - American painter.

Charles Wimar emigrated in 1843 at the age of 16 years with his family in the United States and settled in St. Louis. There he studied from 1846 to 1850 under the guidance of Leon de Pomarede painting. In 1851 he returned to Dusseldorf, to study art.

He returned again in 1856 to St. Louis back 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 original inhabitants in pictures. His works are the most important exhibits of the City Art Museum in St. Louis.

Wimar died in 1862 of tuberculosis.