Charles Reiffel

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Charles Reiffel
Born1862
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
DiedMarch 14, 1942
San Diego, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Lithographer, painter
Summer Session at Ballast Point, San Diego. 1930. Summer Session at Ballast Point, San Diego, by Charles Reiffel 13139.jpg
Summer Session at Ballast Point, San Diego. 1930.

Charles Reiffel (1862 - March 14, 1942) was an American lithographer and post-Impressionist painter who became "one of California's best-known painters." [1]

Life

Reiffel was born in 1862 in Indianapolis, Indiana. [2]

Reiffel was initially a lithographer, and he took up painting in 1912. [2] He was self-taught, [3] and he painted en plein air as a post-impressionist. [4] Reiffel first moved to the art colony of Silvermine, Connecticut, where he was the president of the Silvermine Artists' Guild. He later moved to San Diego, [5] where he became "one of California's best-known painters." [1] One of his students was Rose Schneider. [6]

Reiffel died on March 14, 1942, in San Diego, at age 79. [2] [5] He was the subject of a retrospective at the San Diego Museum of Art and the San Diego History Center in 2013. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Charles Reiffel". The Los Angeles Times. April 5, 1942. p. 47. Retrieved July 10, 2020– via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 3 "Charles Reiffel". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  3. 1 2 Knight, Christopher (January 19, 2013). "Review: Charles Reiffel retrospective is an eye-opener". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
  4. ↑ "Charles Reiffel". San Diego Museum of Art. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Famous Landscape Painter Called". Santa Ana Register. March 16, 1942. p. 7. Retrieved July 10, 2020– via Newspapers.com.
  6. ↑ Hughes, Edan Milton (1989). "Schneider, Rose (1895–1976)". Artists in California, 1786-1940. Hughes Publishing Company. p. 497. ISBN   978-0-9616112-1-7.


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