Charles Schreyvogel

Who was Charles Schreyvogel?

Charles Schreyvogel was a painter of Western subject matter in the days of the disappearing frontier. Schreyvogel was especially interested in military life.

He spent most of his life as an impoverished artist. He suddenly became recognized and earned what seemed like overnight fame. He was born in New York City. He also spent much of his childhood in Hoboken, New Jersey. He grew up in a poor family of German immigrant shopkeepers on the Lower East Side of New York. Schreyvogel was unable to afford art classes and he taught himself to draw. In 1901, he was awarded the Thomas Clarke Prize at the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design.

Schreyvogel did much of his work in his studio in decidedly non-Western Hoboken.

Works by Schreyvogel are included in the collections of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He is buried in Flower Hill Cemetery, North Bergen, New Jersey.