Edmund Henry Wuerpel | |
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| Born | May 13, 1866 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | February, 1958 |
| Education | Washington University in St. Louis, Washington University School of Fine Art, Académie Julian, École des Beaux-Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Painter, educator, academic administrator, designer of orthodontics |
| Employer | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Movement | Tonalism |
| Spouse | Minnie Clay Johnson |
| Children | 3 |
Edmund Henry Wuerpel (May 13, 1866—February, 1958), was an American painter, longtime educator, and second director of the St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts, part of Washington University in St. Louis. In his years of training in Paris, Wuerpel became a friend of painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler who helped spread the influence of the "Tonal School" in the Midwest. In a parallel career 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.[1]