Franz Eduard Meyerheim (10 October 1838,

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- 5 April 1880,

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) was a German

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painter.

Life and work

His father was the painter,

Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim (7 January 1808, Danzig – 18 January 1879, Berlin) was a German painter.* Biography Meyerheim came from a family of artists with a long history in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). He received his first training fr ...

. His younger brother,

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim 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. Life Paul Friedrich Meyerheim was born in Berlin on 13 July ...

also became a painter. His uncles, Wilhelm Alexander Meyerheim (1815–1882) and Hermann Meyerheim (fl.1860s) were artists as well. His first art lessons were provided by his family members. In 1854, at the age of sixteen, he entered the

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. Four years later, he transferred to the

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and had his first exhibition. He also travelled extensively, to Tyrolia, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, making sketches of humble, rural people, who would be his primary subjects. Following a reorganization of the Prussian Academy, he was appointed Professor of anatomical drawing, a post he held until 1878, when illness forced him to retire. He died two years later, while convalescing in Marburg, at the age of forty-two. The cause of death was given as a "softening of the brain" ( encephalomalacia).

Sources

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from the '' Bénézit Dictionary of Artists'' @

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