High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rudolph Friederich Kurz (1818-1871) was a Swiss painter and writer who ventured to USA in order to paint and study the native Americans. He is mostly known on account of his journals, in which he presents an account of and an interesting commentary on life in the mid-1800s along the Mississippi and Missouri. Born in 1818 in Langnau im Emmental to Johannes Kurz (who moved to Langnau from Reutlingen, Germany in 1806) 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 (1842) he became head of painting class at the Fellenberg Institute in Hofwil. Again he left Bern (and the Old Continent) in 1846 setting sails for America. The venture along the banks of Mississippi and Missouri was noted and reviewed in his journals. The time spent in the bustling frontier communities proved to be both fruitful and dangerous- he tried his luck in mining and horse trade (with no successes).

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