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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
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Keywords (66)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •National Parks and/or State Parks
- •Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
- •Seascapes, Seasides
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Townscape, Village Scenes
- •Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •California Before 1940
- •Catalina Island
- •Grand Canyon, Arizona
- •Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
- •Hubbell Trading Post, Ganado, Arizona
- •Monterey, Carmel California
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Texas Before 1940
- •Venice, Italy
Art Association
- •American Watercolor Society, Painters in Watercolor
- •Bohemian Club
- •California Art Club-
- •California Watercolor Society
- •Carmel Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Arts Club, New York
- •New York Water Color Club, Society-
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City
Art School
- •Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Royal Academy, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •Isadore Prize, Salmagundi Club
- •Norman Wait Harris Bronze Medal, Chicago Art Institute
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
Art Collection
- •J.L Hubbell Collection, Arizona
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Miniature Specialty
Artist Colony
- •Monterey and Carmel-By-The-Sea
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Stendahl Galleries, Los Angeles
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •AskART Panama Pacific Expo
- •Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939, 1940
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •California Art Club
- •California Watercolor Society-
- •Carmel Art Association-
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •National Arts Club
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City-
- •San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Carnegie Institute, International Exhibition
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts