Biografie von Charles REIFFEL (1862-1942)

Birth place: Indianapolis, IN

Death place: San Diego, CA

Addresses: Buffalo, NY; Silvermine, CT; settled in San Diego, CA, 1925 & living there in 1942

Profession: Landscape painter, lithographer

Studied: mostly self-taught, but did study portrait painting with Carl Marr in Munich.

Exhibited: Buffalo SA, 1908 (prize); PAFA Ann., 1910, 1917-24, 1930; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1910-28 (6 times); Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915; AIC, 1917 (med.); S. Indp. A., 1917-18; CAFA, 1920; Int. Expo, Pittsburgh, 1922; Hoosier Salon, 1925 (prize), 1926 (prize), 1927 (prize), 1928 (prize), 1931 (prize), 1938 (prize); LACMA, 1926 (prize), 1929 (prize); San Diego FA Gal., 1926 (prize), 1927 (prize); Calif. AC, 1928 (gold); Sacramento AC, 1928 (prize), 1930 (prize); Phoenix, AZ, 1928 (prize), 1930 (prize); Santa Cruz, 1929 (prize); John Herron AI, 1929 (prize); Richmond (IN) AA, 1930 (prize); Painters of the West, 1930 (gold); Pasadena Art Gal., 1930 (prize); Los Angeles Exh., 1932 (prize).

Member: Allied AA; Contempotary; Int. Soc. Art Lgl; Conn. SA; SC; CAFA; Buffalo SA; Silvermine GA; Wash. AC; North Shore AA; Hoosier Salon; Chicago Gal. Art; San Diego AG; Calif. AC; Laguna Beach AA.

Work: CGA; San Diego FA Gal.; Santa Cruz AL; Municipal Gal., Phoenix; Wood Art Gal., Montpelier, VT; LACMA; Herron AI; Admin. Bldg., San Diego.

Comments: Position: lithographer, Stowbridge Lithography Company, Cincinnati. After six years in Europe, he continued in the lithography business until c.1921, when he started devoting all his time to painting, particularly Southern California landscapes.

Sources: WW40; Hughes, Artists of California, 462; P&H Samuels, 394; Falk, Exh. Record Series.