Known for his genre and portrait painting, Christian Mayr was also a designer and daguerreotypist* who traveled widely including the southern states in America and Central America. Mayr was born in... Read full biography
Known for his genre and portrait painting, Christian Mayr was also a designer and daguerreotypist* who traveled widely including the southern states in America and Central America. Mayr was born in Nuremberg, Germany where his father, Johann Daniel von Mayer (1778-1810) was an artist, engraver and... Read full biography
Known for his genre and portrait painting, Christian Mayr was also a designer and daguerreotypist* who traveled widely including the southern states in America and Central America. Mayr was born in Nuremberg, Germany where his father, Johann Daniel von Mayer (1778-1810) was an artist, engraver and entrepreneur. Christian's father died when the boy was quite young, and his godfather, Christian Fues, also an artist and engraver, took over his education and then married Christian's mother. In... Read full biography
Known for his genre and portrait painting, Christian Mayr was also a designer and daguerreotypist* who traveled widely including the southern states in America and Central America. Mayr was born in Nuremberg, Germany where his father, Johann Daniel von Mayer (1778-1810) was an artist, engraver and entrepreneur. Christian's father died when the boy was quite young, and his godfather, Christian Fues, also an artist and engraver, took over his education and then married Christian's mother. In 1819, he entered the Royal Art Academy in Nuremberg and for some time worked as a lithographer* and architectural painter. In 1823, he began study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich*. In about 1834, Mayr traveled from Germany to the United States,... Read full biography
Known for his genre and portrait painting, Christian Mayr was also a designer and daguerreotypist* who traveled widely including the southern states in America and Central America. Mayr was born in Nuremberg, Germany where his father, Johann Daniel von Mayer (1778-1810) was an artist, engraver and entrepreneur. Christian's father died when the boy was quite young, and his godfather, Christian Fues, also an artist and engraver, took over his education and then married Christian's mother. In 1819, he entered the Royal Art Academy in Nuremberg and for some time worked as a lithographer* and architectural painter. In 1823, he began study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich*. In about 1834, Mayr traveled from Germany to the United States, and that year he first exhibited his work, five of them portraits, at the National Academy of Design* in New York, two years before he... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (30)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
2003
Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton
252 pages (color)
Early Art and Artists in West Virginia
2000
Cuthbert, John A.
301 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection
1995
Severens, Martha R
289 pages (color)
American Painting Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Editors
56 pages (color)
American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life
1991
Johns, Elizabeth
250 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
McElroy, Guy C
190 pages (color)
Tropical Renaissance North American Artists: Latin America 1839-1879
1989
Manthorne, Katherine Emma
235 pages (color)
Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918
1987
Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors)
464 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design (Exhibition catalog)
1983
National Academy of Design
175 pages (color)
The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen
1983
Poesch, Jessie
384 pages (color)
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III
325 pages (color)
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
1978
Fink, Lois Marie
62 pages (color)
Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900
1978
Williams, Herman Warner Jr
248 pages (color)
Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century
1977
Miles, Ellen G (editor)
176 pages (color)
America as Art
1976
Taylor, Joshua C
320 pages (color)
Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor
272 pages
The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Hills, Patricia
160 pages (color)
American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1
1966
North Carolina Museum of Art
118 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union
1953
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860 (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index