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 wester (showing 500 of 7799 characters). |
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Frederick Schafer is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Painters of Grand Canyon
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