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Died. Martin Bodmer, 71, Swiss banker and collector of rare books and manuscripts; of peritonitis; in Geneva, Switzerland. Bodmer accumulated more than 100,000 items in his "Bibliotheca Bodmeriana," including one of three copies of the Gutenberg Bible in private collection. His greatest coup was his 1952 acquisition of 73 folios and quartos of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The price was more than...
...Alexander Philip Maximilian, naturalist, explorer, and Prince of Wied, decided to make a foray into the little-known Western regions of North America. He took along a young Swiss artist named Karl Bodmer to draw and paint what they could see. Their trip, which lasted a year, was filled with marvels of scenery and encounters with the Indians. At Fort McKenzie, in what is now Montana, Bodmer made portraits of the Blackfeet who came to trade there. One dawn the Blackfeet were attacked by neighboring tribes, jealous of the Blackfeet's trading privileges. Bodmer sketched the massacre-the best...
...Later Bodmer and Maximilian spent five months at Fort Clark, in what is now North Dakota, where they were introduced to some Minnetaree chiefs by their interpreter, Toussaint Charbonneau. They apparently got friendly enough for the explorers to give one Indian a stovepipe hat. Bodmer's drawings of U.S. Indians were never hasty impressions but bold portraits of individuals, with meticulous notations of their clothing and decorations, their expressions and personalities. Back in Europe, Bodmer made engravings of 81 of his sketches and watercolors to accompany Maximilian's two-volume Travels in the Interior of North America...
...Karl Bodmer lived the remainder of his life in Barbizon, the artists' colony in the forest of Fontainebleau outside Paris, painting and teaching. One of his protégés was Jean François Millet, and as Millet's fame ascended, Bodmer's diminished. Finally, in need of money, Bodmer was forced to sell part of his collection of Millet drawings and paintings. He died in 1893. His legacy of art was bought from Knoedler this summer by the Northern Natural Gas Co. of Omaha, whose board chairman, John Merriam, is a trustee...
...Curmudgeon is the first complete play by Menander discovered by the modem world. Two years ago the only known copy, scrawled on papyrus possibly by a schoolmaster in the 3rd century A.D., turned up mysteriously in the hands of a Greek antique dealer in Cairo. The finder: Martin Bodmer, a millionaire Swiss banker and bibliophile, who whisked it off to his lavish private library in Geneva...