Louis Choris

Louis Choris (; 22 March 1795 – 22 March 1828) was a German-Russian painter and explorer.

Biography Louis Choris was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (now Dnipro, Ukraine) to German-Russian parents on 22 March 1795. His illustrations on the Romanzoff expedition are therefore likely to faithfully represent the subjects he painted. After the voyage of the Rurik, Choris went to Paris where he issued a portfolio of his drawings in lithographic reproduction and studied in the ateliers of Gerard and Regnault. Choris worked extensively in pastels and documented the Ohlone people in the missions of San Francisco, California in 1816. Choris left France in 1827 for South America and was killed by robbers on 22 March 1828, en route to Vera Cruz, Mexico.

Choris' works are now held in public collections by such museums as the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the Honolulu Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of California.

Legacy

Otto von Kotzebue named the Choris Peninsula after Choris.

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