| Johann Georg Meyer Von Bremen | ||
| Birth Date: October 28, 1813 |
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| Death Date: December 4, 1886 Artist Gallery |
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| Johann Georg Meyer von Bremen, son of a poor baker, was of Lower Saxon and Frisian family background. His early talent for drawing eventually won out over his youthful devout zeal for becoming a missionary. With a little money he had saved by his modest efforts as portraitist and some financial aid from family friends, Meyer set out, in 1833 for Düsseldorf and studies at the art academy there.
After a study trip in 1835 von Bremen started his career as a painter of religious subjects. Although he sold a few pieces, he moved in another direction by 1840. Von Bremen gained by this time a reputation as a genre painter and in particular he was noted for his special treatment of the mother and child and children motifs. He preferred small scale, lyrical “mood genre” of quiet domestic life. The signature Meyer Von Bremen soon became synonymous with the children genre; it justified his popular nickname Kindermeyer. Von Bremen often used his own children as models, being a devoted family man.
It is our understanding is that virtually all of his work found their way into American society by the late 1880s.
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