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1839 Braunschweig, Germany - 1927 Oakland, California. Known for: Landscape, Indian life, wildlife.
The following biography is from the artist's web site, http://ffscat.lcs.mit.edu/ffshtml/ and reprinted with the permission of Jerome H. Saltzer. Frederick Ferdinand Schafer was born in Braunschweig,... Read full biography
The following biography is from the artist's web site, http://ffscat.lcs.mit.edu/ffshtml/ and reprinted with the permission of Jerome H. Saltzer. Frederick Ferdinand Schafer was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on August 16,1839. He emigrated to the United States in 1876, at the age of 37, where he... Read full biography
The following biography is from the artist's web site, http://ffscat.lcs.mit.edu/ffshtml/ and reprinted with the permission of Jerome H. Saltzer. Frederick Ferdinand Schafer was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on August 16,1839. He emigrated to the United States in 1876, at the age of 37, where he created some 500 paintings of western American landscapes, and he died in Oakland, California, on July 18, 1927. He is well known within a community of collectors of and dealers in western art, mostly... Read full biography
The following biography is from the artist's web site, http://ffscat.lcs.mit.edu/ffshtml/ and reprinted with the permission of Jerome H. Saltzer. Frederick Ferdinand Schafer was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on August 16,1839. He emigrated to the United States in 1876, at the age of 37, where he created some 500 paintings of western American landscapes, and he died in Oakland, California, on July 18, 1927. He is well known within a community of collectors of and dealers in western art, mostly in California and the Pacific Northwest. Schafer's training in Germany is unknown. His work resembles that of the Düsseldorf school and contemporary newspaper writers sometimes suggested a connection. He had studios in San Francisco from 1880 through... Read full biography
The following biography is from the artist's web site, http://ffscat.lcs.mit.edu/ffshtml/ and reprinted with the permission of Jerome H. Saltzer. Frederick Ferdinand Schafer was born in Braunschweig, Germany, on August 16,1839. He emigrated to the United States in 1876, at the age of 37, where he created some 500 paintings of western American landscapes, and he died in Oakland, California, on July 18, 1927. He is well known within a community of collectors of and dealers in western art, mostly in California and the Pacific Northwest. Schafer's training in Germany is unknown. His work resembles that of the Düsseldorf school and contemporary newspaper writers sometimes suggested a connection. He had studios in San Francisco from 1880 through 1886 and in his homes in Alameda and Oakland from 1887 until his death. He apparently spent summers sketching in Oregon, Washing... Read full biography