About Charles Frederick Ulrich

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    Charles Frederick Ulrich was a noted late nineteenth-century realist painter of portraits and genre scenes who spent much of his life as an expatriate in Europe. He was born in New York, the son of a German émigré photographer and painter. His first studies were with little-known the painter and lithographer, Francis Venino. In the early 1870s, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design and may have attended classes at the Cooper Union School of Art.

    In the mid-1870s, many American artists were seeking training in Munich, and by October of 1875 Ulrich had followed their lead, enrolling that month at the city's Royal Academy, where his instructors were Ludwig von Löfftz and Wilhelm Lindenschmidt. He quick...

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