Charles Reiffel
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]
Life
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Charles Reiffel". The Los Angeles Times. April 5, 1942. p. 47. Retrieved July 10, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Charles Reiffel". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
- ^ a b Knight, Christopher (January 19, 2013). "Review: Charles Reiffel retrospective is an eye-opener". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 10, 2020.
- ^ "Charles Reiffel". San Diego Museum of Art. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
- ^ a b "Famous Landscape Painter Called". Santa Ana Register. March 16, 1942. p. 7. Retrieved July 10, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1862 births
- 1942 deaths
- People from Indianapolis
- People from Fairfield County, Connecticut
- Artists from San Diego
- American lithographers
- American male painters
- Painters from California
- Post-impressionist painters
- 19th-century American painters
- 19th-century American male artists
- 20th-century American painters
- 20th-century American male artists
- American painter, 19th-century birth stubs