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Ferdinand Burgdorff

Ferdinand Burgdorff (1881 - 1975) was active/lived in California, Ohio.  Ferdinand Burgdorff is known for Landscape and genre painting, printmaking.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Ferdinand Burgdorff studied at the Cleveland School of Art and in Paris with Rene Menard and Florence Este.  In 1907, he headed West with the intention of becoming a desert landscape painter.  He lived in box cars with railroad builders on the stretch of line between Yuma and Calexico and traveling by wagon or horseback, accompanied surveyors on many trips into the desert.  Of this time he wrote: "There were such exciting things to see and paint, undisturbed by a single human within miles" (Widening Horizons).

He also worked for a period in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he painted the sandy wastes near Albuquerque in the region known as the Sandia.  He then moved to California where he was an illustrator for The Sunset magazine, then a new publication. Many of the paintings he had made earlier were reproduced in this magazine.

In California, he first lived in Carmel where he was an active member of the   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1988 characters.]  Artist bio

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