Sophie Meyer

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Lute player (1876)
Oil on canvas, 106 × 72 cm

Sophie Meyer (* 1847 in Köslin , Pomerania Province ; † November 9, 1921 in Düsseldorf ) was a German painter from the Düsseldorf School .

The Pierretten
as a drawing in the magazine
Die Gartenlaube (1889)

Life

Sophie Meyer was born in 1847 in the town of Köslin in western Pomerania. She was the daughter of the pharmacy owner August Wilhelm Meyer and his wife Maria Caroline Luise, née Behm . No details are known about her childhood and youth. She completed her training as a painter as a private student of Eduard Gebhardt and in particular Wilhelm Sohn , where Paula Monjé and Julia Schily-Koppers , among others, were her fellow students.

The artist specialized in genre and landscape painting , still life and portraits . She painted in oil on canvas, but also made watercolors and wood engravings . She signed her pictures with "Sophie Meyer Ddf" or "Sophie Meyer Dü" and the year. From 1877, according to Thieme-Becker, she exhibited her works publicly.

One of her better-known works is the oil painting The Lute Player , which was created in 1876. The long version of the title of the picture reads Portrait of a Southern Bard in historical clothing . In 1889 the magazine Die Gartenlaube printed a black and white drawing based on Sophie Meyer's oil painting Pierretten . The illustration with the subtitle Faschingslust served to illustrate a serial novel. From that very Pierre tablets motive Sophie Meyer also has only 11.5 × 15.5 cm hand-colored made wood engraving.

In 1880 Sophie Meyer took part in the trade and art exhibition that took place on the zoo grounds with a painted marble tabletop .

Sophie Meyer was a member of the General German Art Cooperative . In 1891 she took part in the International Art Exhibition in Berlin with her still life in late summer , which was organized by the Association of Berlin Artists on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.

The artist remained unmarried. From 1880 she had her residence in Immermannstrasse in Düsseldorf. After her widowed mother moved to Düsseldorf in 1888, she lived with her until 1890 in her apartment at Leopoldstraße 28 in the house of the painter Friedrich Wilhelm Schreiner , later from 1898 to 1915 at Carl-Anton-Straße 13. Then hers disappeared Track. Sophie Meyer died in Düsseldorf in November 1921 at the age of about 74.

family

Through her maternal cousin Emma Stryck, there were family ties between Sophie Meyer and the Steifensand and Schulgen families, who also belonged to the Düsseldorf artistic circles. Emma Stryck was married to a son of the musician and composer Wilhelm Steifensand ; his brother, the engraver Xaver Steifensand , had married into the copper printing works of the Royal Art Academy C. Schulgen-Bettendorff .

Works (selection)

  • Rhine landscape near Caub , 1864
  • View of Marksburg am Rhein near Koblenz , 1867
  • Lute player , 1876
  • Still life with a pheasant and a lobster
  • Study sheet with flowers
  • late summer
  • The serenade in the castle park

literature

Web links

Commons : Sophie Meyer  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry in the database of the German National Library , d-nb.info, accessed on January 13, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Meyer, Sophie . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 24 : Mandere – Möhl . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1930, p. 495 .
  3. ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting - Complete list of the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. smkp.de (PDF), accessed on January 24, 2017, p. 78.
  4. ^ Artists of the Düsseldorf School of Painting - Complete list of the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf. smkp.de (PDF, selection, status: November 2016), accessed on January 27, 2017: Directory with almost 2500 entries provides for the first time a comprehensive overview of the artists associated with the Düsseldorf School of Painting. First and foremost, the persons recorded were those who studied at the Art Academy (KA), took private lessons (PU) or were artistically active in Düsseldorf.
  5. ↑ A painter of high quality, local history association and city museum present Schily-Koppers-Raum , press release of the city of Borken, February 8, 2008, presse-service.de, accessed on January 13, 2017.
  6. ^ Official catalog of the trade exhibition , group XX. Applied arts, Meyer, Miss., Sophie, Düsseldorf. Painted tabletop (marble).
  7. ^ Members of the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft in 1890 , wladimir-aichelburg.at, accessed on January 11, 2017.
  8. ^ International Art Exhibition Berlin 1891 (PDF), exhibition catalog, Verlag des Verein Berliner Künstler, Berlin 1891, p. 78.
  9. ^ Address book of the city of Düsseldorf 1889 , digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de, accessed on January 13, 2017.
  10. ^ Address books of the city of Düsseldorf from 1880 to 1921.
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Sophie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter from the Düsseldorf School
DATE OF BIRTH 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Koslin , Pomerania Province
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1921
Place of death Dusseldorf