Louis Mayer (painter)

Ludwig Hartmann " Louis " Mayer (* May 23, 1791 in Bishop 's home; † November 18, 1843 in Stuttgart) was a German landscape painter. His brother Karl Mayer (1786-1870) belonged to the Swabian poet circle.

Life

Ludwig Hartmann Mayer was born the second son of Friedrich Christoph Mayer (1762-1841), Office of the masters of Helmstatt to Bishop 's home. Among his godparents was 14 Carl Christoph von Helmstatt. His second first name Hartmann is the mother's maiden name. He always called himself Louis.

Already the father to have had drawing talent. After the death of his masters in 1795, the family moved in 1797 to the new site of action of the Father to Heilbronn. Brother Charles moved to grandparents Hartmann to Stuttgart, where he attended high school while Louis spent his youth in Heilbronn and trained as a merchant. The younger brother was August 1812 in Russia.

Despite early artistic inclinations Louis Mayer was initially quite a few years for trading houses in Heidenheim, Stuttgart and Heilbronn operates. It was not until 1824 at the age of 33 he attended the academy of Stuttgart in Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf. 1830-1832 study tours have taken him across Italy, then further trips Tyrol, the province of Salzburg and Styria in Switzerland and forming the southern Germany where he drew each landscape images. His drawings and watercolors are in the style of romance and set the mood of the landscape in the foreground. The watercolors were used as templates for steel engravings to illustrate the book " Tyrol and Styria ", 30 images appeared in 1838 in the band walks through Swabia by Gustav Schwab.

Mayer had contacts with the Swabian poet and belonged to the circle of friends around Justinus Kerner, whose house in the vineyard, he also held the image.