Georg Reimer (painter)

Georg Friedrich Reimer (born May 17, 1828 in Leipzig , † September 17, 1866 in Berlin ) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Young nobleman with dog

Reimer was the only son of the bookseller Karl August Reimer (1801-1858) from his first marriage to Auguste, née Hörner (1805-1834). His grandfather and namesake was the art-loving Leipzig publisher Georg Andreas Reimer . His sister Maria Auguste (1832-1907) married the historian Theodor Mommsen in 1854 .

Reimer grew up in Leipzig. He received artistic training as a painter as a private student of Rudolf Jordan in Düsseldorf , where he lived for a while as a genre painter and draftsman. He also worked in Weimar and Wiesbaden . Finally he settled in Berlin. His specialty were cabinet pieces with gallant scenes from the Rococo period ( Neorokoko ), which were received as witty by contemporary critics.

Reimer's stepmother Johanna, nee Winter (1817–1902), bequeathed the painting Compliments to the Alte Nationalgalerie after the death of her stepson from his estate , which was presumably shown at the Berlin Academy Exhibition in 1860 under the title Vorzimmerszene and by Daniel Chodowiecki's etching Der Complimentir fool is inspired by 1783. Paul Klee took up the motif in his 1903 etching Two men, assuming each other in a higher position, meet again.

literature

Reimer, Georg . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Dresden 1898, Volume 2, p. 375.
Reimer, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 28 : Ramsden-Rosa . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1934.

Web links

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

Georg Reimer , data sheet in the portal rkd.nl ( RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis )
Georg Reimer , auction results on the portal artnet .de

Individual evidence

↑ Sabine Henze-Döhring (Ed.): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Correspondence and diaries . Volume 8: 1860-1864 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-019231-5 , p. 758, footnote 35
^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
↑ Georg Reimer . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : The Monogrammists . Georg Franz, Munich 1863, Volume 3, P. 90 ( Google Books )
↑ Babette Marie Warncke: Rococo fashion. Rococo reception in 19th century German painting . Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, p. 196 ( digitized version )
↑ Compliments , image description in the nat.museum-digital.de portal , accessed on October 20, 2019

personal data
SURNAME	Reimer, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reimer, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	17th September 1866
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Sabine Henze-Döhring (Ed.): Giacomo Meyerbeer. Correspondence and diaries . Volume 8: 1860-1864 . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-11-019231-5 , p. 758, footnote 35

[2] Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )

[3] Georg Reimer . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : The Monogrammists . Georg Franz, Munich 1863, Volume 3, P. 90 ( Google Books )

[4] Babette Marie Warncke: Rococo fashion. Rococo reception in 19th century German painting . Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, p. 196 ( digitized version )

[5] Compliments , image description in the nat.museum-digital.de portal , accessed on October 20, 2019