Selected works
Indians on the Warpath
Morning on Mount Shasta, 14,400 feet high from Shasta Lake, California
Two Indians in the Utah Desert
Old Roscoe on the Truckee River (c. 1885)
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer | |
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| Born | August 16, 1839 Braunschweig, Germany |
| Died | July 18, 1927 (aged 87) Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Spouse | Sophia Schafer |
| Children | 1 son, 1 daughter |
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer (August 16, 1839 - July 18, 1927) was a German-born American painter. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany and he emigrated to the United States in 1876, at age 37. [1] [2] He opened a studio on Montgomery Street in San Francisco, and he lived in Oakland, [3] Over the course of his career, he did over 500 paintings. [2] He died in Oakland at age 87. [4] His work is in the permanent collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Fairfield University Art Museum, and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. [1] [5]
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