Georg Friedrich Reimer (17 May 1828,

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– 17 September 1866,

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) was a German

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from the Düsseldorf School.

Life

Reimer was the only son of the bookseller Karl August Reimer (1801–1858) from his first marriage to Auguste, née Hörner (1805–1834). His grandfather and namesake was the art-loving Leipzig publisher

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. His sister Maria Auguste (1832–1907) married the historian

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in 1854. Reimer grew up in Leipzig. He received artistic training as a painter as a private student of Rudolf Jordan in

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, where he lived for a while as a genre painter and draftsman. He then worked in

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and

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, finally settling in Berlin. His specialty was '' Kabinettstücke'' cabinets with

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scenes from the Rokoko period ( Neorokoko), which were considered witty by contemporary critics. After his death in 1866, Reimers stepmother Johanna, née Winter (1817–1902), bequeathed the painting ''Komplimente'' to the Alten Nationalgalerie, presumably at the Berlin Academy ''Vorzimmerszene'' exhibition in 1860, which inspired Daniel Chodowieckis's etching ''Der Complimentir-Narr'' in 1783.

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also took up the motif in his 1903 etching ''Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich''.''Komplimente''
Bildbeschreibung im Portal ''nat.museum-digital.de'', retrieved 20 October 2019.

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''Georg Reimer''
Datenblatt im Portal ''rkd.nl'' ( RKD – Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis)
''Georg Reimer''
Auktionsresultate im Portal ''

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