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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.[1]

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim
Paul Meyerheim, by Nicola Perscheid (1915)
Born	(1842-07-13)13 July 1842 Berlin, Germany
Died	14 September 1915(1915-09-14) (aged 73) Berlin, Germany
Nationality	German
Education	Prussian Academy of Arts.
Known for	Painter, teacher
Movement	Orientalist

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 Gardens 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.[2]

From 1857 to 1860 he attended the Prussian Academy of Arts. 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.[1]

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 at their home in Alt-Moabit. Some panels are now in the possession of the Märkisches Museum in Berlin-Mitte and the Deutschen Technikmuseum.

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim died in Berlin on 14 September 1915.[3]

Other painters in the Meyerheim family

His father was the painter Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim (1808–1879); his elder brother, Franz Eduard Meyerheim, was also a painter as were his uncles, Wilhelm Alexander (1815–1882) and Hermann (fl.1860s).

Panels from Life History of a Locomotive

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  Extraction of the Ore
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  Blast Furnace Slag
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  Engineering Works
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  Locomotive Construction

See also

• German Wikipedia: Lebensgeschichte einer Lokomotive
• List of Orientalist artists
• Orientalism

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, ISBN 3-363-00468-0, pp. 176, 258.
• Irmgard Wirth: Berliner Malerei im 19. Jahrhundert. Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-572-10011-9, p. 418.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Paul Meyerheim.

• Arcadja Auctions: 49 works by Meyerheim
• Literature by and about Paul Friedrich Meyerheim in the German National Library catalogue

На других языках

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[de] Paul Friedrich Meyerheim

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim (* 13. Juli 1842 in Berlin; † 14. September 1915 ebenda) war ein deutscher Maler und Grafiker.

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- [en] Paul Friedrich Meyerheim

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[fr] Paul Friedrich Meyerheim

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, né le 13 juillet 1842 à Berlin et mort le 14 septembre 1915 à Berlin, est un peintre prussien et un artiste graphique. Il a fait des portraits et des paysages, mais il est surtout connu comme peintre d'animaux[1].

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