Carl Diethelm Meyer

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Carl Diethelm Meyer (born January 28, 1840 in Baden in the canton of Aargau ; † October 13, 1884 in Munich ) was a Swiss genre and portrait painter .

Life

Born the son of a beer brewer, Carl Diethelm Meyer was encouraged to train as a painter by his uncle, the painter Jakob Mayer-Attenhofer (1806–1885). At the age of 17, Meyer came to Melchior Paul von Deschwanden's workshop in Stans .

Since November 3, 1858 Meyer studied in the class of antiquities at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich . From 1859 he also attended Professor Hermann Anschütz's painting school .

In 1863 he returned to Switzerland and in 1864 came to Paris to the École des Beaux-Arts and to the painting school of Alexandre Cabanel . Meyer's painting was also influenced by Jules Breton .

In 1867 he returned to Aargau. In 1869 he came back to Munich and studied there at the painting school of Baron Arthur von Ramberg . He then stayed in Munich as a freelance artist and took part in art exhibitions.

Meyer married the daughter of a Swiss man who was established in Munich in 1882 and died of an incurable disease at the age of 44.

literature

  • Erwin Haller: Carl Diethelm Meyer (1840-1884) . In: Argovia , annual journal of the Historical Society of the Canton of Aargau, vol. 68–69, 1958, pp. 528–529 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Carl Diethelm Meyer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1858, registration book entry for Carl Diethelm Meyer. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on August 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Carl Diethelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss genre and portrait painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden AG
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1884
Place of death Munich