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Rudolf Scheffler
Lyme Art Colony
(1884–1973) In Lyme, C. 1920 - c. 1971
Scheffler, member of the Lyme Art Colony, was a post-impresisonist painter whose paintings of his home garden in Old Lyme remained private because he did not exhibit until after 1931. He also painted landscapes, figures and still lifes, and spent many summers on Monhegan Island in Maine with his friend Emil Holzhauer.

He was a student at the Royal Academy in Dresden and in the 1920s returned there to teach. In Dresden he was a highly sought after portraitist in high society. In 1921 he purchased a windmill near Denmark and painted the interior in the ancient Nordic folk style and carved all its furniture. The windmill later became an historic landmark.

Scheffler came to the United States in 1924. He was already recognized as a leading architectural artisan, especially known for his mosaics and stained glass. He lived in Robert Laurent's artists' building in Brooklyn Heights. By the late 1920s he was summering in Lyme, Connecticut.