Frederick Ferdinand Schafer
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.
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer · 1. Stephenson’s Auctioneers 2. liveauctioneers.com · Public domain
- Name
- Frederick Ferdinand Schafer
- Born
- August 16, 1839
- Birthplace
- Braunschweig, Germany
- Died
- July 18, 1927 (aged 87)
- Place of death
- Oakland, California, U.S.
- Occupation
- Painter
- Spouse
- Sophia Schafer
- Nationality
- Germany · United States
- Known for
- Old Roscoe on the Truckee River
- Languages
- German
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Frederick Ferdinand Schafer. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q18571692 · wikipedia · Frederick Ferdinand Schafer
In this article
Biography
Biography
His work is in the permanent collections of the British Columbia Archives, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Fairfield University Art Museum, and the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture.
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer - Cypress Point, Monterey
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer · Bonhams
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer - After a snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
Frederick Ferdinand Schafer · Bonhams
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Frederick Ferdinand Schafer • Born — August 16, 1839 • Birthplace — Braunschweig, Germany • Died — July 18, 1927 (aged 87) • Place of death — Oakland, California, U.S. • Occupation — Painter • Spouse — Sophia Schafer • Children — 1 son, 1 daughter
Selected works
Selected works
• Illustration — Indians on the Warpath • Illustration — Morning on Mount Shasta, 14,400 feet high from Shasta Lake, California • Illustration — Two Indians in the Utah Desert • Illustration — Old Roscoe on the Truckee River (c. 1885)
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
Brunswick.
Birth place
Oakland.
Death place
General references
General references
*
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Frederick Ferdinand Schafer, revision 1366270018 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 20 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Paintings
19,456 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Frederick Carl FriesekeArtist
- Frederick CatherwoodArtist
- Frederick Daniel HardyArtist
- Frederick DielmanArtist
- Frederick Hans HaagensenArtist
- Frederick Judd WaughArtist
- Frederick KemmelmeyerArtist
- Frederick McCubbinArtist
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Frederick Ferdinand Schafer?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.