EARLY CALIFORNIA

A landscape and marine painter, Ferdinand Kaufmann was born in Germany and studied in Paris with Jean Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. Prior to settling in Southern California in 1921, he lived in Pittsburgh where he was a member of the Pittsburgh Art Association. In 1934, he became a resident of Pasadena and exhibited with the Pasadena Art Institute, and in 1939 of Laguna Beach where he was active in the Art Association. He died in 1942 in Los Angeles County. Exhibited: Pasadena Art Institute, 1928, 1929 Laguna Beach Gallery, 1930 Academy of Western Painters, 1936