William Frederic Ritschel
Painting, Visual Artist
1864 – 1949
Who was William Frederic Ritschel?
William Frederic Ritschel was a California impressionist painter who was born in Nuremberg, Germany on July 11, 1864. As a youth, he worked as a sailor and began sketching seascapes. He studied art under Karl Raupp and Wilhelm von Kaulbach at the Royal Academy of Munich before immigrating to New York City in 1895. In 1911, he settled in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California and began painting Monterey Peninsula. He died in Carmel in 1949.
The Arizona State University Art Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Crocker Art Museum, the Davenport Museum of Art, Fisher Gallery, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Irvine Museum, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University, the Newark Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Springville Museum of Art, and the University of Arizona Museum of Art are among the public collections holding works by William Frederic Ritschel.
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- Born
- Jul 11, 1864
Nuremberg - Nationality
- Germany
- United States of America
- Died
- Mar 11, 1949
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on July 23, 2013
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