Christian rohlfs biography
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Christian rohlfs biography
Charles Rohlfs
American furniture maker representative of the Arts and Crafts movement
Charles Rohlfs | |
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Rohlfs circa 1903 | |
| Born | (1853-02-15)February 15, 1853 New York City |
| Died | June 30, 1936(1936-06-30) (aged 83) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3, including Roland |
Charles Rohlfs (February 15, 1853 – June 30, 1936), was an American actor, patternmaker, stove designer and furniture maker.
Rohlfs is a representative of the Arts and Crafts Movement, and is most famous for his skill as a furniture designer and maker.[1]
Life and career
Rohlfs was born in Brooklyn and studied at the Cooper Union in Manhattan.
As a young man, he worked as a stove pattern-maker while pursuing his career as an actor. He received several patents for stove designs, but had limited success as an actor. (Reading a review in 1895 in which a Chicago critic wrote, "His face is comedy, his spindling legs are comedy, and those ponderous double-jointed, floppy hands of hi