Claus Meyer (painter)

The dice players, 1885

Leibniz in the Leibnizhaus , later named after him ; Illustration by Claus Meyer with a decorative frame by Änne Koken on Anna Wendland's title “From the days of the Elector Sophie ”;
Excerpt from the Illustrirten Zeitung No. 3538 of April 20, 1911, p. 7f.

Claus Meyer called Claus-Meier , born Eduard August Nicolaus Meyer (born November 20, 1856 in Linden near Hanover , † November 9, 1919 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter.

Life

Meyer was the son of Christoph Wilhelm Eduard Meyer and his wife Anna Adelaide Kühne . He attended grammar school in Hameln, but initially nothing is known about his further training as an artist.

Meyer began his studies in 1875 under August von Kreling at the Nuremberg Art School and continued it from 1876 in Munich, where he became a student of Alexander Wagner and Ludwig von Löfftz at the Academy of Fine Arts .

From 1890 to 1895 he was a professor at the Karlsruhe Academy , Karl Rauber was his master student. Meyer was Wilhelm Sohn's successor at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1895 .

In 1900/1901 Meyer painted the mural The Children's Engagement in the Knight's Hall of Burg Castle on behalf of the Rheinischer Kunstverein . In 1904 Meyer was a judge in a competition organized by the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck for designs for joint advertising by Stollwerck and the Henkell Sektkellerei.

literature

Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe , Siegmar Holsten (Hrsg.): Art in the residence. Edition Braun , Karlsruhe 1990, p. 389. ISBN 3-925835-58-X

Web links

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

Works by Claus Meyer on artnet.de
Teja Hohensee: Interior images with a sense of proportion. Claus August Eduard Nicolaus Meyer, a painter from the bourgeoisie in Hameln , from dewezet.de, accessed on January 16, 2017

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Baptismal register of the Protestant Church Linden, year 1856, p. 150, serial No. 266.
↑ 1876, entry in the register for Claus Meyer. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
↑ Reiner Meyer: The art of advertising at the Bahlsen biscuit factory in Hanover from 1889-1945, dissertation at the Georg-August University of Göttingen 1999, OCLC 48732006 , online (PDF 454 pages).

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Clausmeyer; Meyer, August Eduard Nicolaus Claus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	November 20, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH	Linden trees
DATE OF DEATH	November 9, 1919
Place of death	Dusseldorf

[TB-1] Baptismal register of the Protestant Church Linden, year 1856, p. 150, serial No. 266.

[2] 1876, entry in the register for Claus Meyer. Academy of Fine Arts Munich, accessed on August 25, 2020 .

[3] Reiner Meyer: The art of advertising at the Bahlsen biscuit factory in Hanover from 1889-1945, dissertation at the Georg-August University of Göttingen 1999, OCLC 48732006 , online (PDF 454 pages).