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1805 Nuremberg, Germany - 1851 New York City. Known for: Genre, portrait, religious figure painting.
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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Keywords (23)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
Art Media
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Oil Paint
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Interior Scenes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Religion, Mysticism, Spirituality
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Charleston, South Carolina Pre 1940
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •New Orleans Before 1940
- •Virginia Before 1900
- •West Virginia Before 1920
Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art School
- •Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (Royal Academy, Student
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City-