Charles Reiffel

Reiffel was born in 1862 in Indianapolis, Indiana.^[2]

Reiffel was initially a lithographer, and he took up painting in 1912.^[2] He was self-taught,^[3] and he painted en plein air as a post-impressionist.^[4] Reiffel first moved to the art colony of Silvermine, Connecticut, where he was the president of the Silvermine Artists' Guild. He later moved to San Diego,^[5] where he became "one of California's best-known painters."^[1] One of his students was Rose Schneider.^[6]

Reiffel died on March 14, 1942, in San Diego, at age 79.^[2][5] He was the subject of a retrospective at the San Diego Museum of Art and the San Diego History Center in 2013.^[3]