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Christian Friedrich Mayr

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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