Frederick Ferdinand Schafer Painting Catalog

Index of Unusual subjects--still life, city
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The first two still lifes below are the only ones known to have been painted by Schafer; they may have been academic exercises painted in Europe. Both are signed in a crisp fraktur hand, with an umlauted "a", further suggesting that they may have been executed in Germany before Schafer's move to the United States. Unfortunately, both of these paintings were lost in the Oakland fire of October 20, 1991. The third still life appears to be signed by Schafer but in a different hand, and its attribution is open to question.

The cityscape is the only one known, and one of the very few paintings by Schafer set in southern California. The scene with windmills and the woman walking toward a village are unique, though not exactly cityscapes. The mission painting is the only one currently known, though a 19th century auction advertisement suggests that there may be others.

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[Floral still life: red rose] 		[photo]
[Floral still life: white rose] 		[photo]
[Still Life with Watermelon and Banana]
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Chinatown, Los Angeles, 1886 		[photo]
[Windmills on a river] 		[photo]
[Woman walking toward a village in winter]
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Carmal Mission, California

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