| Charles Reiffel | |
| Birth Date: | 1862 |
| Birth Place: | Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. |
| Death Date: | March 14, 1942 |
| Death Place: | San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Lithographer, painter |
Charles Reiffel (1862 - March 14, 1942) was an American lithographer and post-Impressionist painter who became "one of California's best-known painters."
Reiffel was born in 1862 in Indianapolis, Indiana.[1]
Reiffel was initially a lithographer, and he took up painting in 1912.[1] He was self-taught,[2] and he painted en plein air as a post-impressionist.[3] 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,[4] where he became "one of California's best-known painters."[5]
Reiffel died on March 14, 1942, in San Diego, at age 79.[1] [4] He was the subject of a retrospective at the San Diego Museum of Art and the San Diego History Center in 2013.[2]