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Frederick Ferdinand Schafer (August 16, 1839 - July 18, 1927) was a German-born American painter. He was born in Braunschweig, Germany and he emigrated to the United States in 1876, at age 37. He opened a studio on Montgomery Street in San Francisco, and he lived in Oakland, Over the course of his career, he did over 500 paintings. He died in Oakland at age 87. His work is in the permanent collections of the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Fairfield University Art Museum, and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.

Selected works

• Indians on the Warpath
• Morning on Mount Shasta, 14,400 feet high from Shasta Lake, California
• Two Indians in the Utah Desert
• Old Roscoe on the Truckee River (c. 1885)

Citations

1. ^ "Frederick Ferdinand Schafer, American, born Brunswick, Germany, 1839 - 1927". Birmingham Museum of Art. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
2. ^ "Frederick F. Schafer". Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
3. Lekisch, Barbara (2003). Embracing Scenes about Lakes Tahoe & Donner: Painters, Illustrators & Sketch Artists 1855-1915. Lafayette, California: Great West Books. p. 155. ISBN 9780944220146. OCLC 1001900414.
4. "Schafer". Oakland Tribune. July 19, 1927. p. 39. Retrieved October 4, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
5. "Frederick Ferdinand Schafer". Fairfield University Art Museum. Retrieved October 4, 2020.

General references

• "Frederick Ferdinand Schafer(1839–1927) : A Preliminary Catalog of his Paintings". OCLC 921307087. Retrieved 1 October 2021.

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