Horses
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1910
Size:25.25" x 30.00"
Medium:Watercolor
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Gold Medal 1910 American Water Color Society Exhibited in the Chicago Art Institute 1910
William (Wilhelm) Frederick Ritschel ART FOR SALE
1864 Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany - 1949 Carmel, California. Known for: Marine, seascape, landscape, figure painting.
Born in Nuremberg, Germany on July 11, 1864. Ritschel was educated at the Latin and Industrial School in Nuremberg. As a youth he worked as a sailor and it was during this time that he began... Read full biography
Born in Nuremberg, Germany on July 11, 1864. Ritschel was educated at the Latin and Industrial School in Nuremberg. As a youth he worked as a sailor and it was during this time that he began sketching marine subjects. He studied art at the Royal Academy in Munich under Raupp and Kaulbach before... Read full biography
Born in Nuremberg, Germany on July 11, 1864. Ritschel was educated at the Latin and Industrial School in Nuremberg. As a youth he worked as a sailor and it was during this time that he began sketching marine subjects. He studied art at the Royal Academy in Munich under Raupp and Kaulbach before immigrating to NYC in 1895. In 1911 he settled in Carmel, CA while continuing to exhibit on the East Coast and in Europe. His paintings of the sea earned him international acclaim and in 1914 he was... Read full biography
Born in Nuremberg, Germany on July 11, 1864. Ritschel was educated at the Latin and Industrial School in Nuremberg. As a youth he worked as a sailor and it was during this time that he began sketching marine subjects. He studied art at the Royal Academy in Munich under Raupp and Kaulbach before immigrating to NYC in 1895. In 1911 he settled in Carmel, CA while continuing to exhibit on the East Coast and in Europe. His paintings of the sea earned him international acclaim and in 1914 he was elected a member of the National Academy. In 1918 he began construction on his ocean view studio-home in the Carmel Highlands. This castle-like stone structure was to remain his home for the rest of his life except for trips throughout the world,... Read full biography
Born in Nuremberg, Germany on July 11, 1864. Ritschel was educated at the Latin and Industrial School in Nuremberg. As a youth he worked as a sailor and it was during this time that he began sketching marine subjects. He studied art at the Royal Academy in Munich under Raupp and Kaulbach before immigrating to NYC in 1895. In 1911 he settled in Carmel, CA while continuing to exhibit on the East Coast and in Europe. His paintings of the sea earned him international acclaim and in 1914 he was elected a member of the National Academy. In 1918 he began construction on his ocean view studio-home in the Carmel Highlands. This castle-like stone structure was to remain his home for the rest of his life except for trips throughout the world, especially the South Seas where he frequently visited. Oldtimers on the Monterey Peninsula remember him garbed in a flowered sarong and perched on a cy.... Read full biography
William (Wilhelm) Frederick Ritschel - Art for Sale (9 available)
Moon Fantasy
Type:Painting
Size:30.00" x 36.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Signed lower right. A dramatic coastal seascape with waves breaking over dark rocks beneath a luminous, cloud-filled sky, rendered in a cool palette of blues, greens, grays, and soft violet tones.
"Echos of the Deep"
Type:Painting
Year:c.1920
Size:36.00" x 40.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Provenance: Directly from the estate of William Ritschel. Titled on stretcher bar. Also titled, signed Wm. Ritschel, N.A. and artist's monogram on reverse canvas. Exhibited: Remnants of exhibition labels on reverse from exhbition in Los Angeles; Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Man and Beast, Near Carmel, 1937
Type:Painting
Year:1937
Size:15.00" x 19.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
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"Rocky Coast at Carmel Highlands"
Type:Painting
Year:1925
Size:16.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Framed in a very fine period frame that originally surrounded a significant painting by Armin C. Hansen, N.A., who was a close friend of William Ritschel. Ritschel’s superb interpretations of the California coast earned him the title of Dean of American Marine Painters.
"Mammoth Cove" - Carmel Highlands
Type:Painting
Year:c.1918
Size:18.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Ritschel’s superb interpretations of the California coast earned him the title of Dean of American Marine Painters. The larger version of this painting can be seen in the Monterey Museum of Art's collection, as well as being illustrated in Plein Air Painters of California/The North.
Holland Windmills
Type:Painting
Year:C. 1905
Size:19.00" x 25.25"
Medium:Mixed Media
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Watercolor and gouache
Carmel Highlands Coast
Type:Painting
Year:1918
Size:16.00" x 20.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Inscribed, signed and dated lower left Also inscribed on reverse.
Glorious Pacific - Carmel Highlands
Type:Painting
Size:20.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
Ritschel moved to California sometime after 1909. He built a stone studio-home high on a bluff overlooking the ocean in Carmel Highlands. From his “Castel a Mare” Ritschel said that he watched the sea…until ‘he made himself master of a marine color-magic…’