William Frederic Ritschel (1864–1949) was a California impressionist

Impressionism

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 painter who was born in Nuremberg, Germany on July 11, 1864. As a youth, he worked as a sailor and began sketching seascapes. He studied art under Karl Raupp

Karl Raupp

Karl Raupp was a German landscape and genre painter.-Biography:After studying genre painting under Jakob Becker at the Städel Institute in Frankfurt, he became a pupil and zealous follower of Piloty in Munich , where he soon gathered a small school. After 1865, he opened a studio, taking private...

 (1837–1918) and Wilhelm von Kaulbach

Wilhelm von Kaulbach

Wilhelm von Kaulbach was a German painter, noted mainly as a muralist, but also as a book illustrator. His murals decorate buildings in Munich.-Education:...

 (1805–1874) at the Royal Academy of Munich

Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

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 before immigrating to New York City in 1895. In 1911, he settled in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

Carmel-by-the-Sea, California

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 and began painting Monterey Peninsula

Monterey Peninsula

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. He died in Carmel in 1949.

The Arizona State University Art Museum

Arizona State University Art Museum

The Arizona State University Art Museum is an art museum operated by Arizona State University, located on its main campus in Tempe, Arizona. The Art Museum has some 12,000 objects in its permanent collection and describes its primary focuses as contemporary art, including new media and "innovative...

 (Tempe, Arizona), the Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago

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, the Crocker Art Museum

Crocker Art Museum

The Crocker Art Museum is one of the leading arts institutions in California, and the longest continuously operating art museum in the West. Located in Sacramento, California, the Crocker has been an art innovator since 1885...

 (Monterey, California), the Davenport Museum of Art (Davenport, Iawa), Fisher Gallery (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), the Honolulu Academy of Arts

Honolulu Academy of Arts

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, the Irvine Museum (Irvine, California), the Monterey Museum of Art

Monterey Museum of Art

The Monterey Museum of Art is the only nationally accredited art museum between Santa Barbara and San Jose. Founded in 1959 as a chapter of the American Federation of Arts, the Museum’s artistic and educational activities have played a significant role in enhancing the quality of life for Monterey...

 (Monterey, California), the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah

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), the Newark Museum

Newark Museum

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 (Newark, New Jersey

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), the Oakland Museum of California

Oakland Museum of California

Oakland Museum of California or Oakland Museum is a museum dedicated to the art, history, and natural science of California located in Oakland, California....

 (Oakland, California

Oakland, California

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), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

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 (Philadelphia), the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Smithsonian American Art Museum

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 (Washington, D. C.), Springville Museum of Art

Springville Museum of Art

The Springville Museum of Art in Springville, Utah is the oldest museum in Utah for the visual fine arts. Completed in 1937, this building was designed in the style of the Spanish Colonial Revival style by Claud S. Ashworth. It was dedicated by LDS Apostle David O...

 (Springville, Utah

Springville, Utah

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), and the University of Arizona Museum of Art

University of Arizona Museum of Art

The University of Arizona Museum of Art is an art museum in Tucson, Arizona, operated by the University of Arizona. The museum's permanent collection includes some 5,000 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings....

 (Tucson, Arizona

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

) are among the public collections holding works by William Frederic Ritschel.