Johann Heinrich Meyer
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Born | Stäfa, Switzerland | 16 March 1760
Died | 14 October 1832 | (aged 72)
Johann Heinrich Meyer (16 March 1760 – 11 October 1832)[1] was a Swiss painter, engraver and art critic. He served as the second Director of the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School. A close associate of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was often referred to as "Goethemeyer".
Biography
Meyer was born in
In 1784, he went to Rome to join the German "colony". Two years later, he met
In 1795, after a study trip to Italy, he became a Professor at the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School. Three years later, he and Goethe began publishing a short-lived art journal; Propyläen. He was placed in charge of managing the paintings and decorations at Schloss Weimar in 1799, following a major reconstruction overseen by Goethe.
In 1803, he married Amalie von Koppenfels (1771–1825), the youngest daughter of Johann Friedrich Kobe von Koppenfels (1737–1811), a confidential government councilor at the Grand Ducal Court in Jena. They had no children.
From 1804, he published articles on art history in the Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung, signed with the initials, "W.K.F". In 1805, he contributed a chapter on 18th century art to Goethe's compilation, Winckelmann and His Century. The following year, he was appointed to succeed the late Georg Melchior Kraus as Director of the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School.
He received the honorary title of Councilor in 1807. From 1809 to 1815, he was engaged in writing his History of Art, which was published posthumously, as was the last volume of his three-volume work, A History of the Fine Arts Among the Greeks. He also made contributions to Goethe's Theory of Colours.
Meyer died 11 October 1832 in Jena.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Müller, Hermann Alexander (1898). "Meyer, Johann Heinrich". Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon (in German). Vol. 3. Frankfurt: Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening. p. 191. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- Carl Brun (1885), "Meyer, Heinrich (Kunstschriftsteller)", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 21, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 591–594
- Choung-Hi Lee-Kuhn (1994), "Meyer, Heinrich", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 347–349; (full text online)
- Jochen Klauß: Der 'Kunschtmeyer'. Johann Heinrich Meyer: Freund und Orakel Goethes. Weimar 2001, ISBN 3-7400-1114-9.
- Rolf Bothe, Ulrich Haussmann (Eds.): Goethes Bildergalerie. Die Anfänge der Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar. G-und-H-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931768-66-X
- Alexander Rosenbaum, Johannes Rößler, Harald Tausch (Eds.): Johann Heinrich Meyer, Series: Kunst und Wissen im klassischen Weimar Vol.9, Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-0515-1
- Johannes Rößler: Die Kunst zu sehen. Johann Heinrich Meyer und die Bildpraktiken des Klassizismus, Series : Ars et Scientia Vol.22). De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2020, ISBN 978-3-1105-8806-4
External links
- Literature by and about Heinrich Meyer in the German National Library catalogue
- Briefe Friedrich Schillers an Heinrich Meyer in Friedrich Schiller Archiv
- Johann Heinrich Meyer: Mahlerische Reise in die Italienische Schweiz. Zurich 1793 in Viatimages
- "Meyer, Heinrich (genannt Kunst-Meyer, Kunschtmeyer, Goethe-Meyer)". SIKART Lexicon on art in Switzerland.
- More works by Meyer @ ArtNet