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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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- Christian Friedrich MayrNovember 1998Riley, Helene M KastingerThe Magazine Antiques
- Greenville (SC) County Museum /ArtNovember 1994Severens, MarthaThe Magazine Antiques