Karl
Bodmer
A Swiss Eye on the American West: The Life and Art of Karl Bodmer Born in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1809, Johann Carl Bodmer – known to art history as Karl Bodmer – embarked on a path that would uniquely intertwine European Romanticism with the vanishing …
A portrait built from Karl Bodmer's own colours
Every 47 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.
