| Johann Wilhelm Preyer | ||
| Birth Date: July 19, 1803 |
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| Death Date: February 20, 1889 Artist Gallery |
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| Johann Wilhelm Preyer and his brother Gustav were both painters and came from an important painting family. The two brothers were both one meter tall; well-proportioned dwarfs. Johann trained at the Düsseldorf Academy and travelled extensively in the Netherlands and Italy to study those countries’ landscape and still life paintings. He used a miniaturist technique, and Preyer was admired for his jewel-like precision that is akin to seventeenth-century Dutch still life painting. He achieved exquisite realism through precise draftsmanship, using oil paintings to simulate natural textures and to add an enamel luster to his work.
In 1848 Preyer founded the “Malkasten” Artist Association in Düsseldorf, where he stayed for the rest of his life. Johann Wilhelm Preyer is the most important 19th century German painter of still-life with fruit and ensured the genre unprecedented success.
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