The German-born artist who went native in the US
The biggest sensation at Scheublein (26% buyer’s premium) in Munich on June 30 was caused by an oil painting of American Indians from the mid-19th century. It was an oil study for a famous painting by Carl Ferdinand Wimar (1828-62), who also went by the name of Charles Wimar.
He was born in Germany, but when he was 15 his family emigrated to St Louis in Missouri, an area w…