Peter Rindisbacher

Peter Rindisbacher

Infobox Artist
name = Peter Rindisbacher


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birthname = Peter Rindisbacher
died at age of = 28
birthdate = Birth date|1806|4|12|df=yes
location = Emmental, Canton of Berne, Switzerland
deathdate = Death date and age|1834|8|13|1806|4|12|df=yes
deathplace = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A.
nationality = American
field = Watercolor painting
training = One year in a Swiss art school as a youth, but mostly Self-taught
movement = Naïve Realism
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Peter Rindisbacher (12 April 1806 – 12 August or 13 August 1834) was a North American artist who specialized in watercolors and illustrations dealing with First Nation tribes of mid-Western Canada and the United States, mostly depictions of the Anishinaabe, Cree, and Sioux, usually in group action or genre scenes. [Josephy, Alvin M. Jr., "The Artist was a Young Man: The Life Story of Peter Rindisbacher". Fort Worth: Amon Carter Museum, 1970.] He seldom did individual portraits; however, he painted himself into a few interior tipi scenes, usually smoking a pipe. He commonly referred to the tipis as tents, such as in the title, "Inside a Skin Tent". [ [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/canadian-west/052910/05291017_e.html Painted in 1824, one of the earliest studies of a tipi by a non-Indian. Library and Archives Canada Collection.] ]

Biography

Rindisbacher emigrated from Switzerland to western Canada with his family when he was fifteen. The family joined the Red River Colony established by the Earl of Selkirk, located near present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba. Lord Selkirk's land grant, called Assiniboia, was administered by a governor and council but, as all the colony's officials had connections with the Hudson's Bay Company, the colony was effectively an arm of Hudson's Bay's operations. The colony faced difficulties due to a disastrous flood of the Red River, on the eastern boundary of North Dakota, which led to damaged crops and starvation. The Rindisbacher family relocated to Wisconsin in 1826, and then settled permanently in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1829. [ [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3098 Rindisbacher's biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"] ]

Career

From the age of fifteen until his death at age twenty-eight, Rindisbacher was a producing artist. He began working with charcoal as a young boy, with the encouragement of his father, and received one year of formal training as an artist in Switzerland. He executed sketches and watercolors of Indians and animals in north-central Canada and the midwestern United States, including the Chippewa and Metis people living along the Red River. At age twenty-three, upon moving to St. Louis, Rindisbacher established an artist's studio, where he also produced illustrations for magazines and book covers. Catlin was at the time only halfway trhouph his western expeditions

Paintings, selected

* "The Buffalo Hunt" [http://www.thecityreview.com/s01phamp.html] - circa 1822-24.
* "Inside of a Skin Tent" [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/canadian-west/052910/05291017_e.html] - 1824, one of the earliest studies of a tipi by a non-Indian. Library and Archives Canada Collection.
* "Indian hunters pursuing buffalo in the early spring" [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/05/0529/052910/05291012_e.html] - 1822, painted when the artist was age sixteen.
* "Hunting the Buffalo" [http://www.wildlifeart.org/Collections/ViewOne.cfm?tId=415&tUrl=/Collections/Browse.cfm?Show=30&UrlName=Browse_all_Artwork] - 1836, frontispiece for Volume 1 of the "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 1836.
* "War dance of the Sauks and Foxes" [http://agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Danse_traditionnelle] - 1834, frontispiece for Volume 2 of the "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall, 1838.
* " Chippewa mode of traveling in spring and summer" [http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Ground/english/exhibition/mfn/emdfm.html] - 1825, West Point Museum Collection.

Legacy

Rindisbacher passed away several days after attending a militia meeting in St. Louis. He is known to have produced at least 124 artworks, with forty currently held by the Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa. Other large concentrations of his paintings are located in the collections of the the West Point Museum of the United States Military Academy and the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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