Hans Meyer (graphic designer)

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Hans Meyer:
The Artist and His Wife (1907)

Hans Meyer (born September 26, 1846 in Berlin ; † December 17, 1919 there ) was a German painter and engraver .

Life

Hans Meyer was born in Berlin in 1846. He attended the Berlin Academy of the Arts , where he was a student of Eduard Mandel from 1863 to 1871 . He made his exhibition debut as a student of Mandel in 1868 at the Academy Exhibition in Berlin with a copper engraving portrait of Frederick the Great . Study trips took him to Italy and France in 1872, the works by well-known masters such as Raffael , Rubens , Velázquez , da Pordenone , van Dyk and Holbein found there can then be found in his etchings.

Later he was a teacher and professor of copperplate engraving and etching in Berlin at the University of Fine Arts . In the catalog of the Berlin academy exhibition in 1888 he was presented as a teacher at the Königl. academic college for the fine arts and interim head of the academic master's atelier for the art of copperplate engraving . In 1892 he was made a full member of the Academy. For many years he was on the exhibition commissions of the academy as well as the great Berlin art exhibitions . Meyer was also a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in London from around 1883 .

The majority of his works were copperplate engravings, etchings, chalk drawings (also as preliminary drafts for etchings) and watercolors. One of his main works is a cycle of 18 sheets called “Dance of Death” with accompanying texts he wrote himself, which was first published around 1891.

Honors

Hans Meyer has received several awards for his works:

  • 1877: 2nd prize at the graphic exhibition in Nuremberg
  • 1886: Small gold medal at the exhibition of the Royal Academy in Berlin
  • 1891: Medal II of the annual exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich
  • 1892: Honorary diploma from the Dresden watercolor exhibition
  • 1899: Great gold medal of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition

Works (selection)

Since 1868, Hans Meyer's works have been regularly represented at well-known German art exhibitions, such as those of the Berlin Academy of the Arts, the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions (GBK) and those in the Munich Glass Palace. The catalogs of these exhibitions alone list "umpteen" titles, so only a selection follows.

  • 1868: Portrait of Frederick the Great . Copper engraving after Prof. Eduard Mandel's drawing of the picture by Frank in the possession of the Messrs. Schickler brothers. (Debut at the academy exhibition in Berlin, still as a student of Eduard Mandel)
  • 1870: Portrait of Sr. Königl. Highness of the Crown Prince . Engraving after a photograph.
  • 1872: Margarethe, Infanta of Spain . Engraving after Velázquez, original in Paris;
    La Flora di Tiziano . Chalk drawing, original in Florence;
    Henriette of France, wife of Carl I of England . Chalk drawing after van Dyk, original in Florence;
    Self-portrait of Diego Velázquez . Chalk drawing, original in the Palace of the Conservators in Rome;
    Portrait of a young girl . Chalk drawing after Hans Holbein the Elder J., original in the Palazzo Doria in Rome;
    Herodias with the head of John the Baptist . Chalk drawing after da Pordenone, original in the Palazzo Doria in Rome.
  • 1874: Portrait of General Field Marshal Count Moltke . Line-style engraving after a painting by Prof. Julius Schrader .
    Triumph of Galatea . Chalk drawing after a fresco by Annibale Caracci in the Palazzo Farnese in Rome;
    Pascuccia , chalk drawing;
    Portrait of a Danish Prince . Chalk drawing after Sustermans in the Palazzo dei Pitti in Florence;
    Marietta . Copper engraving
  • 1883: portraits of your emperors. u. Royal Highnesses of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of the German Empire and Prussia . Etchings after the pictures painted by H. von Angeli and owned by the KK Highnesses. Rud. Schuster, Berlin.
    Poetry . Engraving in line style after Raphael (unfinished). Original in the Vatican in Rome.
  • 1888: Lake Garda . Original etching
  • 1891: The war . Copper engraving after Friedrich Geselschap
  • 1893: six original etchings from the dance of death cycle: reaper , child , old man , wanderer , stone knocker , hermit
  • 1899: “Collective exhibition” at the GBK with around 60 of his works (watercolors, chalk, pencil drawings and etchings).
  • 1901: Street in Olevano near Rome . Watercolor; In the Serpentara near Olevano . Tempera; Female portrait . Copper engraving after Hans Holbein; Old man . Etching from the dance of death cycle.
  • 1904: Autumn days in the Hohe Rhön . Watercolor; Venetian . Tempera; Ragazzina . tempera
  • 1906: Farm garden in Grins . Painting; Old houses in grins . Painting; Rock footbridge in Grins . Painting; Portrait of the former Minister of State Frhr. from Berlepsch . Etching; Dressage . Original lithograph.
  • 1909: In the sand of Brandenburg ; From the Villa d'Este in Tivoli
  • 1910: View of the Ratzeburg lake . Watercolor; In the morning (motif from Belzig) . Watercolor; In the Kupfermühlental near Ratzeburg . Watercolor; The painter . Etching from the dance of death cycle.
  • 1914: Unsleben Castle (waterfront) . Watercolor; Bridge in grins . Watercolor; Closed Unsleben . Watercolor; The birth of christ . Pencil drawing.
  • 1916: memory . Original etching; Ahlbeck fishermen, taking flounders out of their nets . Drawing; Portrait of the lieutenant at sea D. Drawing.
  • 1917: Peace . Copperplate engraving; The war . Copperplate engraving; Perseus frees Andromeda . Etching after Rubens; Double portrait of a Genoese patrician and his wife . Etching after the painting by van Dyck.

literature

Web links

Commons : Hans Meyer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog of the 60th exhibition of the Royal Academy of the Arts in Berlin Digitized at the Berlin Art Library
  2. ↑ Collections and exhibitions :. From the Berlin art exhibitions. In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts. NF 2.1890 / 91 issue 19 March 1891, p. 329 f. , accessed on September 26, 2015 (digitized version of Heidelberg University).
  3. ↑ a b Illustration of the catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1893, plate 134. Digital copy of the Berlin Art Library
  4. ↑ Illustration catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1901, plate 112. Digitized at Heidelberg University
  5. ^ Illustration catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1904, plate 99. Digitized version of Heidelberg University
  6. ^ Illustration of the catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1910, plate 133. Digital copy of the Berlin Art Library
  7. ^ Illustration of the catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1916, plate 47. Digitized version of Heidelberg University
  8. ^ Illustration of the catalog of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1917, plate 35. Digitized version of Heidelberg University
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1919
Place of death Berlin