Georg Ludwig Meyn

Georg Ludwig Meyn (born December 19, 1859 in Berlin ; † February 2, 1920 there ) was a German portrait and genre painter .

Live and act

Georg Ludwig Meyn around 1900. Photo by Wilhelm Fechner

Portrait of Josef Kainz as Hamlet

Jutta-Sabine, the painter's daughter. Chalk drawing

First he studied at the Berlin Art Academy from 1876 to 1882 (as a student of the history painter Otto Knille ). Study trips took him to southern Germany , Sweden , Denmark , Belgium , Austria , Italy , France and Spain . After he had already made a name for himself as a society and genre painter by the end of the 19th century, he was appointed head of the painting class at the art academy in 1901 as the successor to various professor Max Koner and was appointed professor in 1903 . In addition, he continued to work as a successful portrait painter for upper class Berlin society and painted the portraits as everyday as one wanted it to be in Berlin. As a guest he also visited the artists' colony in Ahrenshoop , but remained a full-blooded Berliner.

Since 1886 (Academy exhibition) he was often represented at art exhibitions, including in 1894, 1897 and 1908 at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition , 1899 in the Wiener Künstlerhaus , 1900 in the Kunsthalle Bremen and the 2nd exhibition of the Berlin Secession , 1902 in the Berlin art exhibition at Lehrter Bahnhof, 1905 at the Venice Biennale , 1906 at the Kunstverein in Hamburg and 1909 at the Künstlerhaus Vienna . In 1897 he was honored with the Small Golden Medal at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and in 1904 at the World Exhibition in St. Louis with a medal. He was represented at the Venice Biennale in 1905 with a portrait showing his artist colleague Hans Looschen . He was also a member of the General German Art Cooperative and the Association of Berlin Artists .

Meyn's students included August Böcher (1873–1961), Reinhard Hübner (1881–1962), Martha Jeep (1874–1955), Ottilie Kaysel and Kurt Losch .

family

Meyn was married to the teacher Johanna Eins. The children Franka-Meliora (* 1897), Jutta Sabine (* 1898) and Kraft-Ulrich (* 1900) emerged from the marriage. In 1904 he had a summer house built entirely in Art Nouveau style for himself and his family in Neuglobsow am Stechlinsee , the so-called " Owl House ", which is still used today by the descendants as an artist and community house.

His final resting place is in the south-west cemetery Stahnsdorf .

Works (selection)

• The artist's three children playing a board game (painting / 1908)
• Sunny youth - Franka and Jutta Sabine with mandolin and guitar in Globsow (painting / 1914)
• Role pretext by Josef Kainz as Hamlet (painting)
• Double portrait of Hermann Müller and Josef Kainz (painting)
• Portrait of Miss Geraldine Farrar (painting)
• Portrait Otto Erich Hartleben (painting)
• The painter Georg Barlösius (painting)
• Portrait of the narrator Heinz Tovote (painting)
• Portrait of the Mayor of Lübeck Theodor Curtius (painting)
• Portrait of the Lord Mayor of Chemnitz, Dr. Heinrich Sturm (painting)
• Portrait of a gentleman (painting)
• Portrait of a lady (painting)
• Klein-Guschen (painting)
• Male study (watercolor drawing)
• Portrait of a woman (red chalk drawing)
• Girl's head to the right (red chalk drawing)
• Portrait of Dr. Caesar Flaischlen (portrait sketch)
• Portrait of the surgeon Franz König (brush drawing)
• Frau von Klett-Cotta (portrait drawing)

He created other portraits a. a. from the painter Julius Ehrentraut , from the neurosurgeon Fedor Krause , from Friedrich Nietzsche , from the merchant Geo Heinrich Plate , from Rudolf Virchow and even from Kaiser Wilhelm II.

literature

• Spiritual Germany at the end of the 19th century Century. Encyclopedia of German intellectual life in biographical sketches. Volume 1: The visual artists. CG Röder, Leipzig / Berlin 1898.
• Friedrich von Boetticher : Painters works of the nineteenth century. Contributions to art history. Volume II, half 1 (Aagaard – Hauschild), Dresden 1901.
• Franz Neubert: German Contemporary Lexicon. Volume 1, Leipzig 1905.
• Berlin and the Berliners. Karlsruhe 1905, p. 160.
• Friedrich Jansa: German visual artists in words and pictures. Jansa, Leipzig 1912.
• 100 years of Berlin art in the work of the Association of Berlin Artists. (Exhibition catalog) Berlin 1929, p. 142.
• Meyn, Georg Ludwig . 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. 501 .
• Irmgard Wirth: Berlin painting in the 19th century from the time of Frederick the Great to the First World War. Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-88680-260-4 . (Figure 450)
• Hans-Jürgen Mende, Kurt Wernicke: Berliner Bezirkslexikon. Berlin center. Volume 1 (A – N), Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89542-111-1 , p. 102.
• Ruth Negendanck: “Ahrenshoop artists' colony. A landscape for artists ”, p. 93 f, 2nd edition, Fischerhude 2011, ISBN 978-3-88132-294-2

Web links

Commons : Georg Ludwig Meyn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files