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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 ...
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Book References: 30
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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
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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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