Émile Schuffenecker
FRENCH PAINTER, ART COLLECTOR AND SUSPECTED FORGER (1851-1934)
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker; Claude-Émile Schuffenecker; Emile Schuffenecker; Schuffenecker
Claude-Émile Schuffenecker (8 December 1851 – 31 July 1934) was a French Post-Impressionist artist, painter, art teacher and art collector. A friend of Paul Gauguin and Odilon Redon, and one of the first collectors of works by Vincent van Gogh, Schuffenecker was instrumental in establishing The Volpini Exhibition, in 1889.