Johann Friedrich Meyer (painter)
Johann Friedrich Meyer (* 1728 in Dresden ; † around 1789 in Potsdam ) was a German theater and vedute painter .
Life
Johann Friedrich Meyer first learned portrait painting and was influenced in Dresden by the vedute painter Bernardo Bellotto , who called himself like his uncle Giovanni Antonio Canal Canaletto . He was picked up by the architect and theater painter Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena and created several theatrical decorations. In 1751 he went to Potsdam and worked there as a painter and gilder at the “Königlichen Bau-Comptoir”. He participated in the painting of Sanssouci and the New Palais . From 1755 he owned a Dutch house at Benkertstrasse 21. In 1771, Friedrich II commissioned him to make Potsdam city views with staffage figures , which he had engraved in copper by Andreas Ludwig Krüger , who had been with Meyer's daughter Marie Friederike (1752–1843) since 1773. was married.
Works (selection)
Potsdam, view from the Brauhausberg
Potsdam, Heiligengeistkirche and Nowawes from the Brauhausberg
literature
- Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1889, p. 489 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Horst Drescher, Renate Kroll: Potsdam. Views from three centuries. Hermann Böhlhaus successor, Weimar 1981, p. 488 .
- Christiane Petri: Potsdam and the surrounding area . Dumont, Ostfildern 2014, ISBN 978-3-7701-6610-7 , pp. 99 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
Web links
- Borchward's journey
- Database of scientific illustrators
- Photo library of the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, search: Meyer
- No smocks, but a lot of beautiful designer duo opens a fashion gallery . PNN . 11/29/2011. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uta Kaiser, Jutta Götzmann: Fascinating view. Potsdam vedute of the 18th and 19th centuries, Michael Imhof Verlag, Potsdam 2017, ISBN 978-3-7319-04816 , p. 29
- ↑ Borchward's Journey
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Johann Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater and vedute painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1728 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1789 |