Paul Friedrich Meyerheim
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim | |
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 Paul Meyerheim, by Nicola Perscheid (1915) | |
| Born | 13 July 1842 |
| Died | 14 September 1915 (aged 73) Berlin, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Prussian Academy of Arts. |
| Known for | Painter, teacher |
| Movement | Orientalist |
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (13 July 1842 – 14 September 1915) was a German painter and graphic artist. He did portraits and landscapes, but is best known as a painter of animals.[1]
Life
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim was born in Berlin on 13 July 1842. He and his brother took their first art lessons from his father. As a young boy, he was fascinated with the new
From 1857 to 1860 he attended the Prussian Academy of Arts. Later, he made several study trips to Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands and spent a year in Paris. In 1883, he established an animal painting class at the Academy. He was appointed a Professor there in 1887 and became a member of the Academic Senate.[1]
Meyerheim was a friend of the Borsig family, owners of the
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim died in Berlin on 14 September 1915[3] and was buried in Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Cemetery.
Other painters in the Meyerheim family
His father was the painter Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim (1808–1879); his elder brother, Franz Eduard Meyerheim, was also a painter as were his uncles, Wilhelm Alexander (1815–1882) and Hermann (fl.1860s).
Panels from Life History of a Locomotive
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Locomotive Construction
See also
- German Wikipedia: Lebensgeschichte einer Lokomotive
- List of Orientalist artists
- Orientalism
References
- ^ a b AGSÖ, Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal: Short biography of Meyerheim
- ^ German Wikisource: "Ein glücklicher Künstler" (Article on Meyerheim from Die Gartenlaube, 1869) [1]
- ^ "Meyerheim, German Genre Artist, Dies". San Francisco Examiner. Berlin. 15 September 1915. p. 1. Retrieved 1 March 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
Further reading
- Staatliche Museen Berlin: Kunst in Berlin 1648–1987. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1987, p. 298.
- Hans Joachim Neidhardt: Deutsche Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. E.A Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00468-0, pp. 176, 258.
- Irmgard Wirth: Berliner Malerei im 19. Jahrhundert. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-572-10011-9, p. 418.
External links
- Arcadja Auctions: 49 works by Meyerheim
- Literature by and about Paul Friedrich Meyerheim in the German National Library catalogue
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