Johann Georg Meyer

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Johann Georg Meyer (born October 28, 1813 in Bremen , † December 4, 1886 in Berlin ), known as Meyer von Bremen , was a main representative of classic German genre painting . Meyer is considered a representative of the Düsseldorf School of Painting . He belonged to the Willingshausen painters' colony .

biography

Meyer was the son of master baker Johann Georg Meyer. His mother was strictly religious. From 1833 he completed his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy , which was directed from 1826 by Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow , the son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow . In addition to Schadow, Karl Ferdinand's son was his teacher there. Meyer acquired the necessary manual skills in order to be able to earn a living from selling his paintings, which he did not succeed in initially. From 1841 to 1852 he had his own studio in Düsseldorf . Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen conducted extensive studies of theSchwalm culture in Schrecksbach . On his travels to Brussels and Antwerp , Meyer experienced the works of Peter Paul Rubens and Anthonis van Dyck . In 1851 he married the singer Julia Beer.

When his painting The Prayer of a Widow received the Small Golden Medal at the Berlin Academic Exhibition , Meyer moved to Berlin in August 1852, where he later opened a studio. Sales of his works went better and better; In 1838 he received only 19 Thaler and 25 Groschen for the painting Mother and Child , so in 1886 his last painting Der Liebling in Berlin brought in 25,000 marks .

Meyer was particularly popular with emigrants to America who wanted to preserve a piece of home in his pictures. His work, The Message of Love , is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York . In 1854 the King of Prussia appointed him professor at the Art Academy in Berlin.

Meyer von Bremen created around 1000 works. When he died in 1886, Meyer was buried in the Schöneberg St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof . In 1938/39, in connection with Albert Speer's plans for a north-south axis , his grave was reburied together with around 15,000 other graves in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf , where it can still be found today.

Works

Housewife , 1854, Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin
The hardworking knitter , 1863
  • mother and child
  • The little rascal
  • The youngest brother
  • Housewife , 1854
  • Praying child
  • Orphans at a grave
  • The flooded
  • The repentant daughter
  • A widow's prayer
  • jealousy
  • The hardworking embroiderer , 1863
  • Grandfather's joy
  • Eavesdropper
  • The flood
  • The letter
  • Good conversation
  • The little sister
  • Love message
  • The darling

Illustrations (selection)

literature

  • Meyer, Johann Georg . In: Friedrich von Boetticher : painter works of the nineteenth century. Contribution to art history . Volume II, Dresden 1898, p. 37 f.
  • Fr. W. Alexander: Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen. The life picture of a German genre painter. EA Seemann publishing house, Leipzig 1910.

Web links

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