Charles Reiffel | |
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| Born | 1862 Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | March 14, 1942 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Lithographer, painter |
Charles Reiffel (1862 - March 14, 1942) was an American lithographer and post-Impressionist painter who became "one of California's best-known painters." [1]
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]
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]
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