Ferdinand Meyer (painter)

Ferdinand Meyer , called Ferdinand Meyer-Wismar (born January 14, 1833 in Wismar , † March 26, 1917 in Schwerin ), was a German genre and portrait painter.

Life

Ferdinand Meyer received his first lessons from the Schwerin court painter Gaston Lenthe . He then attended the Dresden Art Academy and then moved to Munich to work with the genre painter Karl von Enhuber . He spent the years 1858 to 1861 in the United States , including New York and Mobile (Alabama) . Back in Germany, he settled again in Munich, where he worked until 1887. This is where genre motifs originated from the Bavarian highlands. From 1887 until his death he was back in his Mecklenburg homeland in Schwerin. From around 1884 he signed his works with Meyer-Wismar. Meyer was represented with his works several times at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy of the Arts in Berlin, as well as at the world exhibitions in Paris in 1867 , Vienna in 1873 and the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. The State Museum Schwerin owns 15 of his works.

“His painterly work is shaped by Munich art. He prefers folk scenes with a strong relationship to representationalism and portraits. The pictures are executed with fine brushwork, warm colors and accuracy. Whether humorous or partly sentimental, he always strives to reproduce the life of the simple strata of the population. "

- Lisa Juerß

Works (selection)

Portrait of the Oberhofbaurate Hermann Willebrand , 1896

• Self-portrait
• Old woman knitting
• At the dentist
• At the village barber
• Card player
• angler
• Mardi Gras fun
• In the quarter
• The Detached Boys , 1862
• The big lot , 1863
• Family happiness in the carpenter's workshop , 1866
• Portrait of the Oberhofbaurate Hermann Willebrand , 1896
• After work , 1905

In 1976 at the State Museum Schwerin , seven of his works were shown at the exhibition 100 Years of Mecklenburg Painting .

literature

• Meyer, Ferdinand called Meyer-Wismar. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 2/1, sheets 1–32: Mayer, Ludwig – Rybkowski. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1898, p. 34 ( archive.org ).
• Meyer, Ferdinand . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 471 .
• Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 6576 .
• Gemäldesammlung Staatliches Museum Schwerin (ed.): From tradition to modernity: painting from 1870 to 1935 . on the occasion of the exhibition, which will be shown from March 3 to May 21, 2000 in the State Museum in Schwerin. Schwerin 2000, ISBN 3-86106-057-4 , p. 14-16 / 148 .
• Friedrich Schlie : Descriptive directory of the works of more recent masters in the Grand Ducal Painting Gallery in Schwerin . Printed by the Bärensprungschen Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1884, p. 47–50 ( digitized version  - Internet Archive ).

Web links

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

• Literature about Ferdinand Meyer in the state bibliography MV
• Works by Ferdinand Meyer on the artnet portal

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ferdinand Meyer-Wismar in Munich, Schwanthalerstraße 36 - No. 468 The secret discovered. In: Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin , catalog 1884, p. 90, with illustration.
2. ↑ Ferdinand Meyer z. Z. in Schwerin, Kaiser-Wilhelmstrasse 26 - No. 425 The evil tongue (pub scene). In: Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin , catalog 1889, p. 81, with illustration.
3. ↑ List of his works in: Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke… see literature
4. ↑ ^{a b c} From tradition to modernity. see literature.
5. ↑ ^{a b} State Museum Schwerin (ed.): 100 Years of Mecklenburg Painting: July - August 1976. Schwerin 1976, pp. 14–15
6. ↑ The list follows Grete Grewolls: Who was who ... see literature
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Description of the works in: Friedrich Schlie: Descriptive Directory… see literature