Georg Reimer
{{short description|German painter}}
Georg Friedrich Reimer (17 May 1828, Leipzig – 17 September 1866, Berlin{{Cite book|last=Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1449421|title=Briefwechsel und Tagebücher|date=1959–2006|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|others=Becker, Heinz, 1922 June 26-2006., Becker, Gudrun., Henze-Döhring, Sabine., Moeller, Hans., Mücke, Panja.|isbn=3-11-009626-9|location=Berlin|oclc=1449421}}) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School.Museum Kunstpalast: Künstler und Künstlerinnen der Düsseldorfer Malerschule (Auswahl, Stand: November 2016, [https://www.kunstpalast.de/uploads/pdf/Knstlerliste-der-Dsseldorfer-Malerschule.pdf PDF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507173302/https://www.kunstpalast.de/uploads/pdf/Knstlerliste-der-Dsseldorfer-Malerschule.pdf |date=2021-05-07 }})
Life
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Reimer was the only son of the bookseller Karl August Reimer (1801–1858) from his first marriage to Auguste, née Hörner (1805–1834). His grandfather and namesake was the art-loving Leipzig publisher Georg Andreas Reimer. His sister Maria Auguste (1832–1907) married the historian Theodor Mommsen in 1854.
Reimer grew up in Leipzig. He received artistic training as a painter as a private student of Rudolf Jordan in Düsseldorf, where he lived for a while as a genre painter and draftsman.Georg Reimer. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler: Die Monogrammisten. Georg Franz, München 1863, Band 3, S. 90 ([https://books.google.com/books?id=RS1JAAAAcAAJ&dq=Georg+Reimer+Maler&pg=PA90 Google Books]) He then worked in Weimar and Wiesbaden, finally settling in Berlin. His specialty was Kabinettstücke cabinets with galant style scenes from the Rokoko period (Neorokoko), which were considered witty by contemporary critics.Babette Marie Warncke: Rokoko-Mode. Rokokorezeption in der deutschen Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, S. 196 ([https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/fedora/objects/freidok:681/datastreams/FILE1/content Digitalisat])
After his death in 1866, Reimers stepmother Johanna, née Winter (1817–1902), bequeathed the painting Komplimente to the Alten Nationalgalerie, presumably at the Berlin Academy Vorzimmerszene exhibition in 1860, which inspired Daniel Chodowieckis's etching Der Complimentir-Narr in 1783. Paul Klee also took up the motif in his 1903 etching Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich.[https://nat.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=420397 Komplimente], Bildbeschreibung im Portal nat.museum-digital.de, retrieved 20 October 2019.
References
Further reading
- Reimer, Georg. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Dresden 1898, Band 2, S. 375.
- Reimer, Georg. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker. Band 28: Ramsden–Rosa. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1934.
External links
- [https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/artists/66107 Georg Reimer], Datenblatt im Portal rkd.nl (RKD – Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis)
- [http://www.artnet.de/k%C3%BCnstler/georg-reimer/ Georg Reimer], Auktionsresultate im Portal artnet.de
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