Christian Friedrich von Mayr
Christian Friedrich von Mayr (in the United States Christian Friedrich Mayr ; * 1803 in Nuremberg , † 1851 in New York ) was a German painter.
At the age of seven he lost his father, the painter and lacquer factory owner Johann Daniel von Mayr, and was raised by his stepfather, the landscape painter Friedrich Christian Fues (1772-1836), who gave him his first painting lessons. His younger brother was the painter Heinrich von Mayr (1806–1871).
From 1819 he attended the painting academy in Nuremberg and from July 1823 studied at the Munich academy . In Munich he was a student of Simon Quaglio as a theater painter .
Around 1836 he emigrated to the United States , where he worked in New York, first as a theater painter and later as a portrait and genre painter.
Works (selection)
- Kitchen Ball at White Sulfur Springs, Virginia (1838), Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art 52.9.23 [1]
literature
- Helene M. Kastinger: Christian Friedrich Mayr. In: Antiques 154, November 1998, pp. 688-695.
- Manfred H. Grieb (Hrsg.): Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon . Visual artists, artisans, scholars. Saur, Munich 2007, Volume 2, pp. 990-991.
- Christine Hübner: Simon Quaglio. Theater painting and stage design in the first half of the 19th century . De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-045755-1 , p. 346.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mayr, Christian Friedrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mayr, Christian Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1803 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nuremberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1851 |
| Place of death | new York |