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Christian Friedrich Mayr

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Christian Friedrich Mayr (1805 - 1851) was active/lived in New York / Germany.  Christian Mayr is 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 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 was elected an Associate member of the Academy. In 1849, he was elected to full membership, which re   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2440 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  30
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2 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Christian Friedrich Mayr
Magazine Article Date Author Color
The Magazine Antiques Christian Friedrich Mayr November 1998 Riley, Helene M Kastinger Yes
The Magazine Antiques Greenville (SC) County Museum /Art November 1994 Severens, Martha Yes
30 Book References for Christian Friedrich Mayr
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2004 Dearinger, David B. Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925 672 Yes
2003 Rasmussen, William M.S.; Robert S. Tilton Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal 252 Yes
2000 Cuthbert, John A. Early Art and Artists in West Virginia 301 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1995 Severens, Martha R Greenville County Museum of Art The Southern Collection 289 Yes
1994 Editors American Painting Frank S. Schwarz & Son, Philadelphia
(Exhibition catalog)		 56 Yes
1991 Johns, Elizabeth American Genre Painting The Politics of Everyday Life 250 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two) 396 Yes
1990 McElroy, Guy C Facing History The Black Image in American Art 1710-1940
(Exhibition catalog)		 190 Yes
1989 Manthorne, Katherine Emma Tropical Renaissance North American Artists: Latin America 1839-1879 235 Yes
1987 Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors) Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918 464 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1983 National Academy of Design Artists by Themselves Artist's Portrait's from the National Academy of Design
(Exhibition catalog)		 175 Yes
1983 Poesch, Jessie The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen 384 Yes
1983 Wright, R Lewis Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist 200 No
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1978 Williams, Herman Warner Jr Mirror to the American Past A Survey of American Genre Painting 1750-1900 248 Yes
1977 Miles, Ellen G (editor) Portrait Painting in America The Nineteenth Century 176 Yes
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 No
1974 Hills, Patricia The Painters' America Rural and Urban Life 1810-1910
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 Yes
1966 North Carolina Museum of Art American Paintings to 1900 Catalogue of Paintings, Vol 1 118 Yes
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1953 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett American Academy of Fine Arts and American Art Union 0 No
1943 Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860
(Exhibition catalog)		 0 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
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