Charles Schreyvogel

He painted the life of the plains,---the Indian hunting the buffalo, attacking settlers, at war dance and fighting American troops.

(1861-1912)

Charles Schreyvogel was a New York City boy, born in 1861, and was educated in the public schools. He was an apprentice to a gold-beater, and later was apprenticed to a die-sinker and lithographer.

His artistic talents could not be denied, and his private studies led to an opportunity to go to Munich, where at the age of twenty-five he studied for three years under Frank Kirschbach and Carl Marr.

On his return to America he went west, and there lived for a while, the life of the plains, the mountains, the Indian agencies, and the army barracks. He was fascinated with the wild life of the frontier, and devoted himself eagerly to the study of horses, Indians, and troopers in full action.

In later years, Schreyvogel made his home at Hoboken, New Jersey, and from 1900 until his death he painted and published many pictures of Indian and army life on the frontier.

Schreyvogel died at his home in Hoboken on January 27, 1912, and in the spring exhiibition of that year the National Academy of Design, New York, hung his most celebrated painting of "My Bunkie" in a place of honor as an affectionate memorial to the artist