Edmund H. Wuerpel (May 13, 1866- February, 1958) was an American Tonalist painter and an important art educator who was head of the Washington University School of Fine Arts for many years. He was also a friend of James Allen McNeil Whistler who helped spread the influence of the "Tonal School" in the Midwest. Wuerpel also played an important role in the development of Orthodontics, collaborating with the "first great teacher of orthodontia" Edward Angle and lecturing in the Midwest and western United States on aesthetics and Orthodontics.
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13 May 1866
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Died |
1958 (aged 91)
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Zodiac | Taurus |
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