Meyer Michaelson

Meyer Michaelson (* around 1810 in Danzig ; † around 1865 in London ) was a German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Michaelson studied painting in Berlin around 1830 and from 1832/1833 to 1835/1866 at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Theodor Hildebrandt his teacher. From 1833 to 1835 he exhibited in Düsseldorf. When he stayed away longer in the school year 1835/1836, he lost his job at the Düsseldorf Academy. Michaelson made a name for himself primarily as a genre painter, giving his depictions a narrative and comic content. He was also a portraitist. In addition to Danzig and Düsseldorf, he worked in Königsberg (Prussia) and London.

literature

Michaelson, Meyer . In: Emmanuel Bénézit : Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays . Gründ, Paris 1976, ISBN 2-7000-0149-4 , Volume 7, p. 383.
Arthur Czellitzer (ed.): Jewish family research . Society for Jewish Family Research, Berlin 1924, p. 783.
Michaelson, Meyer . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler : New general artist lexicon . Verlag von EA Fleischmann, Munich 1840, Volume 9, p. 241 ( Google Books ).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ Museum Kunstpalast : Artists from the Düsseldorf School of Painting (selection, as of November 2016, PDF )
^ Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, pp. 135 f., No. 112 ( digitized version )
↑ Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )
^ The Biedermeier painter Meyer Michaelson. For the exhibition of Jewish family pictures in the Berlin Jewish Museum . In: Jüdische Rundschau , issue of November 3, 1936, p. 14

personal data
SURNAME	Michaelson, Meyer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German genre and portrait painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Danzig
DATE OF DEATH	around 1865
Place of death	London

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

[2] Johann Josef Scotti : The Düsseldorf painter school, or art academy in the years 1834, 1835 and 1836, and also before and after . Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1837, pp. 135 f., No. 112 ( digitized version )

[3] Finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Art Academy Düsseldorf , website in the portal archive.nrw.de ( Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen )

[4] The Biedermeier painter Meyer Michaelson. For the exhibition of Jewish family pictures in the Berlin Jewish Museum . In: Jüdische Rundschau , issue of November 3, 1936, p. 14