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Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (13 July 1842 – 14 September 1915) was a German painter and graphic artist. He did portraits and landscapes, but is best known as a painter of animals.
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Paul Friedrich Meyerheim was born in Berlin on 13 July 1842. He and his brother took their first art lessons from his father. As a young boy, he was fascinated with the new
File:Meyer-lok-gewinnung des erzes.jpg, ''Extraction of the Ore''
File:Meyerheim-lok-hochofenabstrich.jpg, ''Blast Furnace Slag''
File:Meyerheim-lok-maschinenfabrik.jpg, ''Engineering Works''
File:Meyerheim-4.jpg, ''Locomotive Construction''
Arcadja Auctions: 49 works by Meyerheim
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Life
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim was born in Berlin on 13 July 1842. He and his brother took their first art lessons from his father. As a young boy, he was fascinated with the new Berlin Zoological Garden
The Berlin Zoological Garden (german: link=no, Zoologischer Garten Berlin) is the oldest surviving and best-known zoo in Germany. Opened in 1844, it covers and is located in Berlin's Tiergarten. With about 1,380 different species and over 20,2 ...
s and went there so often he was able to befriend Martin Lichtenstein, the zoo's founder, who allowed him into areas that were normally closed to the public. This experience led him to specialize in animal painting.
From 1857 to 1860 he attended the Prussian Academy of Arts
The Prussian Academy of Arts (German: ''Preußische Akademie der Künste'') was a state arts academy first established in Berlin, Brandenburg, in 1694/1696 by prince-elector Frederick III, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and la ...
. Later, he made several study trips to Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands and spent a year in Paris. In 1883, he established an animal painting class at the Academy. He was appointed a Professor there in 1887 and became a member of the Academic Senate.
Meyerheim was a friend of the Borsig family, owners of the '' Borsig-Werke'', a company that manufactured railroad locomotives. He produced many illustrations and designs especially for them. A major attraction at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition in 1912 was a series of seven huge images, painted on copper, that he had done for the Borsigs in 1873/76. The panels were called "Lebensgeschichte einer Lokomotive" (Life History of a Locomotive) and were originally intended for the garden loggia
In architecture, a loggia ( , usually , ) is a covered exterior gallery or corridor, usually on an upper level, but sometimes on the ground level of a building. The outer wall is open to the elements, usually supported by a series of columns ...
at their home in Alt-Moabit. Some panels are now in the possession of the Märkisches Museum
The Märkisches Museum ( Marcher Museum; originally Märkisches Provinzial-Museum, i.e. Museum of the Province of the March f Brandenburg is a museum in Mitte, Berlin. Founded in 1874 as the museum of the city of Berlin and its political reg ...
in Berlin-Mitte
Mitte () (German for "middle" or "center") is a central locality () of Berlin in the eponymous district () of Mitte. Until 2001, it was itself an autonomous district.
Mitte proper comprises the historic center of Alt-Berlin centered on the ch ...
and the Deutschen Technikmuseum.
Paul Friedrich Meyerheim died in Berlin on 14 September 1915.
Other painters in the Meyerheim family
His father was the painterFriedrich Eduard Meyerheim
Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim (7 January 1808, Danzig – 18 January 1879, Berlin) was a German painter.*
Biography
Meyerheim came from a family of artists with a long history in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). He received his first training fr ...
(1808–1879); his elder brother, Franz Eduard Meyerheim
Franz Eduard Meyerheim (10 October 1838, Berlin - 5 April 1880, Marburg) was a German genre painter.
Life and work
His father was the painter, Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim. His younger brother, Paul Friedrich Meyerheim also became a painter. Hi ...
, was also a painter as were his uncles, Wilhelm Alexander (1815–1882) and Hermann (fl.1860s).
Panels from ''Life History of a Locomotive''
See also
* German Wikipedia: Lebensgeschichte einer Lokomotive *List of Orientalist artists
This is an incomplete list of artists who have produced works on Orientalist subjects, drawn from the Islamic world or other parts of Asia. Many artists listed on this page worked in many genres, and Orientalist subjects may not have formed a m ...
* Orientalism
In art history, literature and cultural studies, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in the Eastern world. These depictions are usually done by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world. In particular, Orientalist p ...
References
Further reading
* Staatliche Museen Berlin: ''Kunst in Berlin 1648–1987''. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1987, p. 298. * Hans Joachim Neidhardt: ''Deutsche Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts''. E.A Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1990, , pp. 176, 258. * Irmgard Wirth: ''Berliner Malerei im 19. Jahrhundert''. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1990, , p. 418.External links
Arcadja Auctions: 49 works by Meyerheim
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Meyerheim, Paul Friedrich 1842 births 1915 deaths Artists from Berlin Prussian Academy of Arts alumni 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 20th-century German painters 20th-century German male artists Orientalist painters