page_title: Rudolf Cronau
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Rudolf Cronau / Career
caption_attribution_description: Bild aus Seite 277 in "Die Gartenlaube". Image from page 277 of journal Die Gartenlaube, 1882. Deutsch: Bildunterschrift: „Sitting Bull. Nach der Natur gezeichnet von dem Specialartisten der „Gartenlaube“ Rudolf Cronau.“ English: caption: "Sitting Bull. Nach der Natur gezeichnet von dem Specialartisten der „Gartenlaube“ Rudolf Cronau."
context_page_description: Rudolf Daniel Ludwig Cronau was a German-American painter, illustrator and journalist
  Rudolf Cronau was well known in Germany for his illustrations, articles and books about the American West.
context_section_description: Cronau contributed a series of articles and illustrations on the subject of life in the United States. In the fall of 1881 he journeyed to Fort Randall in Dakota Territory where he would meet and befriend Sitting Bull, then a prisoner of war at that post. Cronau was sympathetic to the Indian's plight, causing him to remain nearly half a year in the territory documenting and illustrating the Sioux. 
  Most of Rudolf Cronau's artistic work from that period is in pencil, some in pen, and there are a few watercolors. Some of his drawings were transferred into collotypes, a photo printing process using gelatin. After Cronau returned to Germany in 1883, he published 50 collotypes in a book about his American visit entitled "Von Wunderland zu Wunderland".
caption: Die Gartenlaube (1882) b 277
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