Rudolph Friedrich Kurz travels the Northern Plains…

1851 CE

Rudolph Friedrich Kurz travels the Northern Plains in the early 1851, encouraged by fellow Swiss artist Karl Bodmer.

He leaves an account as well as sketches of the Hidatsa and Mandan village tribes.

Born in 1818 in Bern, Switzerland to Johannes Kurz (who immigrated to Switzerland from the German city of Reutlingen in 1806 settling in Langnau, Canton Bern) and Maria Stooss, he attended drawing classes at the Bern gymnasium under Joseph Volmar.

In 1838 he travelled to Paris to further his studies; thereupon he met Alexander von Humboldt and Karl Bodmer.

Upon returning to Bern in 1842 he became head of painting class at the Fellenberg Institute in Hofwil.

Again he left Bern in 1846 for America.

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Fort Berthold Indian Reservation Dunn North Dakota United States View →

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Alexander Culbertson View → Karl Bodmer View → Rudolph Friedrich Kurz View →

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Arikara people (Amerind tribe) View → Mandan (Amerind tribe) View → Hidatsa people (Amerind tribe) View →

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North American Fur Trade View → Western Art: Romanticism View →

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Writing View → Painting and Drawing View →

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