Fred A. Precht (1863–1942) was a painter of portraits and interior scenes.
Life Precht was born in Germany on November 29, 1863Petition for Naturalization and immigrated to the United States in 1880, at age 16.Petition_for_Naturalization He lived and worked in New York City, exhibiting in the Society of Independent Artists, the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1917 and 1930.Fred A. Precht in AskART He died in 1942.LiveAuctioneers.com
References Falk, Peter Hastings, Who was Who in American Art, 1564-1975, Madison, CT, Sound View Press, 1999, Vol. III, p. 2657. Jacobsen, Anita, Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists, Dallas, Texas, A. J. Publications, 2002, Vol. I, Book III, p. 2592. National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.), Pennsylvania Academy Moderns, 1910-1940, Washington, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975, p. 40.
External links
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museum Fred A. Precht in AskART
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