Mother and Children in Prayer
Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen (Bremen 1813 - Berlin 1886)
Lot-No. 402
Oil/canvas, 28 x 40 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. Meyer v. Bremen 1880, some rest.- Figure a. history painter. M. studied at the Düsseldorf academy under C.F. Sohn a. W. von Schadow. He found his atmospheric motifs of everyday rural life on travels to Hassia, Bavaria a. Switzerland. He was awarded a gold medal in 1850 a. the medal of the world's fair in Philadelphia in 1876. In 1852 he became professor in Berlin - Mus.: New York (Metrop. Mus.), Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Amsterdam (Stedelijk Mus.), Bremen (Kunsthalle), Hannover a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.
Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen: Mother and Children in Prayer
Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen (Bremen 1813 - Berlin 1886)
Mother and Children in Prayer
Lot-No. 402
Oil/canvas, 28 x 40 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. Meyer v. Bremen 1880, some rest.- Figure a. history painter. M. studied at the Düsseldorf academy under C.F. Sohn a. W. von Schadow. He found his atmospheric motifs of everyday rural life on travels to Hassia, Bavaria a. Switzerland. He was awarded a gold medal in 1850 a. the medal of the world's fair in Philadelphia in 1876. In 1852 he became professor in Berlin - Mus.: New York (Metrop. Mus.), Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Amsterdam (Stedelijk Mus.), Bremen (Kunsthalle), Hannover a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.