Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim

Friedrich Eduard Meyer Home ( born January 7, 1808 in Gdansk, † 18 January 1879 in Berlin) was a German painter.

Life

Meyer home belonged to a family of artists originating from Danzig. The father Karl Friedrich Meyer was a home parlors and decorative painter who trained him at first.

Friedrich Eduard Meyer home came after initial studies in architectural painter Johann Adam Breysig in art school of his native town in 1830 to Berlin, where he further trained at the Academy led by Johann Gottfried Schadow. Eduard Daege and Johann Gottfried Cute his teacher. After graduating, Meyer Home wandered with his friend, later Oberhof Baurat Heinrich Strack Mark Brandenburg and produced numerous architectural drawings, particularly of churches and brick buildings at. His first independent painting Schützenfest Westphalian peasants (also The marksman king ) in 1836 acquired Consul Wagener, from whose estate it came into the collection of Nationalgelerie Berlin.

Under the influence of the Düsseldorf school of painting he painted 1833-1841 a number of romantic genre paintings. From then on, he devoted himself exclusively to the representation of the bourgeois and peasant life. This he had by now taken several motifs, such as in the picture The marksman king of 1836. Westphalia, Altenburg, Thuringia, Hesse and the resin were his preferred fields of study. His genre paintings are characterized by an email -like flavor. In 1836 he married the sister of the Berlin sculptor Friedrich Drake. Since 1870, a serious nervous disorder paralyzed his artistic activity.

The son of Paul Meyer home has portrayed his father in 1877 in a masterful painting that came into the Museum of the City of Gdansk.

Works (selection)

"Standing Male Nude "

" The Cone Company"

" Brunswick farmers in the church aisle "

"Return from the field "

"Good morning, Father "

The artists Meyer family home

His brother Wilhelm Meyer Home (1815-1882) painted small genre paintings, horse pieces and maneuvers scenes with a smooth surface. Another brother, Hermann Meyer Home (* 1828) has architectural pieces and navies painted. His sons Franz Eduard Meyer Home (1838-1880) and Paul Friedrich Meyer Home (1842-1915) were his pupils.