Robert Meyerheim

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Poggenpfuhlstrasse in Danzig , around 1870
Eine Pastorale (A Pastoral) , around 1875

Robert Gustav Meyerheim (* 1846 or 1847 in Danzig ; † 1920 in Horsham , West Sussex ) was a German landscape , genre and miniature painter from the Düsseldorf School .

Life

Meyerheim was the son of the Danzig master painter Gustav Adolf Meyerheim (* 1816, † after 1890) and a scion of the famous Meyerheim family of painters. His grandfather was the Danzig room painter Karl Friedrich Meyerheim (1786–1837). His other sons, so his uncles, were the genre painter Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim and the horse painter Wilhelm Meyerheim (1815–1882). Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim's sons, his cousins, were the painters Franz Meyerheim and Paul Friedrich Meyerheim .

In 1865 Meyerheim was named as a scholarship holder of the Peace Society in Danzig. In 1866 he went to Karlsruhe to the Grand Ducal Badische Kunstschule , where he studied with Hans Fredrik Gude until 1867 . He then attended the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There he deepened landscape painting in the class of Oswald Achenbach from 1868 to 1870 . In Düsseldorf , where he was among others with Gregor von Bochmann , he maintained a studio for some time , in which he taught Josef Arbesser von Rastburg and Hugo Darnaut . In the 1870s he emigrated to Great Britain, where he lived in London from 1876 and in Horsham (Wimblehurst Road) from 1894 . There he also worked as a miniature painter.

Works (selection)

  • Pine forest , 1864/1865
  • Beach near Brösen , 1864/1865
  • The nuns church in Danzig , 1864/1865
  • The Long Bridge with the Frauentor to Gdansk , Berlin Academy Exhibition 1866
  • Poggenpfuhlstrasse in Danzig , around 1870, Art Forum Ostdeutsche Galerie , Regensburg
  • Children at the village pond , 1876
  • A Pastoral , 1870s, Sheffield Museum
  • The Goose Girl , 1870s, Sheffield Museum

literature

Web links

Commons : Robert Gustav Meyerheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See list of students in Karlsruhe in the entry Hans Gude . In: Norsk kunstnerleksikon , I – IV (1982–1986, digitized version )
  2. ^ Rudolf Theilmann : The student lists of the landscape classes from Schirmer to Dücker . In: Wend von Kalnein (Ed.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting . Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, ISBN 3-8053-0409-9 , p. 146
  3. ^ Helene von Bochmann: The youth of the painter Gregor von Bochmann (1850–1930) , undated , website in the portal site.uottawa.ca , accessed on June 15, 2016
  4. ↑ Linda Orams, David Simkin: Portraiture in Sussex Before Photography: 2. Miniature Painters , website in photohistory-sussex.co.uk , accessed on June 15, 2016
  5. ^ Eduard Meyerheim from the artist dynasty of Danzig , website in the portal rambow.de , accessed on June 15, 2016
  6. ↑ Directory of the works of living artists, which in the halls of the Königl. Academy building in Berlin 1866. XLV. Art exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts . Berlin 1866, p. 45 (No. 476, Google Books )
  7. ^ Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg: The permanent collection of the Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie: list of works by room (as of January 12, 2015, PDF )
  8. ^ Robert Gustav Meyerheim , website in the artuk.org portal , accessed on June 15, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Meyerheim, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyerheim, Robert Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape, genre and miniature painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH 1846 or 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH 1920
Place of death Horsham , West Sussex