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Frederick Papsdorf

Frederick Papsdorf (1887 - 1978) was active/lived in Michigan, Ohio.  Frederick Papsdorf is known for Naive town-landscape, still life.

The following is from Cris Reed:

Frederick Papsdorf was my great uncle, the brother to my grandmother. Because she lived with us for all of my growing up years, I remember Uncle Fred coming out to our farm near Napoleon, Michigan and spending a day or two with us. He would open his enormous sedan trunk (in the 50's especially) and pull out his paintings to give away to Mom and Grandma. He smoked a pipe, would go into my grandmother's room, and they would chat for hours in German.

Sometimes he brought his wife Aunt Tina (or Teena?). I visited him in his home in Detroit in about 1977 during the winter. He was frail but very alert and insisted that I take a painting of my choice. He was putting together a show and had loads of frames and paintings. It was a great experience for me to see his "frame shop" where he used old barn siding, any recycled things you can imagine to do his own framing.

Nearly all of the pieces I have are framed in weathered, distressed materi   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 8158 characters.]  Artist bio

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