About Rudolf Scheffler

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Rudolph Sheffler
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    Rudolf Scheffler, 1884-1973, was born in Zwickau, Germany, coming to the United States in 1924. He established a studio in Brooklyn Heights, New York. He painted murals (including those in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1932), and created mosaics and stained glass for churches, synagogues and public buildings in nineteen states. Scheffler was considered an important craftsman and architectural muralist in America and Germany.

    Scheffler painted on Monhegan Island, Maine in the teens and twenties with other Old Lyme impressionists, including William Chadwick, Wilson Irvine, Ernest Albert, Chauncey Ryder and William Robinson. He is associated with the town of Old Lyme, Connecticut.

    In 1989, the Florence Griswold Museum, in Old Lyme, put o...

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