Georg Reimer

Georg Friedrich Reimer (17 May 1828, Leipzig – 17 September 1866, Berlin[1]) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School.[2]

Life
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Reimer was the only son of the bookseller Karl August Reimer (1801–1858) from his first marriage to Auguste, née Hörner (1805–1834). His grandfather and namesake was the art-loving Leipzig publisher Georg Andreas Reimer. His sister Maria Auguste (1832–1907) married the historian Theodor Mommsen in 1854.

Reimer grew up in Leipzig. He received artistic training as a painter as a private student of Rudolf Jordan in Düsseldorf, where he lived for a while as a genre painter and draftsman.[3] He then worked in Weimar and Wiesbaden, finally settling in Berlin. His specialty was Kabinettstücke cabinets with galant style scenes from the Rokoko period (Neorokoko), which were considered witty by contemporary critics.[4]

After his death in 1866, Reimers stepmother Johanna, née Winter (1817–1902), bequeathed the painting Komplimente to the Alten Nationalgalerie, presumably at the Berlin Academy Vorzimmerszene exhibition in 1860, which inspired Daniel Chodowieckis's etching Der Complimentir-Narr in 1783. Paul Klee also took up the motif in his 1903 etching Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich.[5]

References
  1. Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864. (1959–2006). Briefwechsel und Tagebücher. Becker, Heinz, 1922 June 26-2006., Becker, Gudrun., Henze-Döhring, Sabine., Moeller, Hans., Mücke, Panja. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-009626-9. OCLC 1449421.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Museum Kunstpalast: Künstler und Künstlerinnen der Düsseldorfer Malerschule (Auswahl, Stand: November 2016, PDF)
  3. Georg Reimer. In: Georg Kaspar Nagler: Die Monogrammisten. Georg Franz, München 1863, Band 3, S. 90 (Google Books)
  4. Babette Marie Warncke: Rokoko-Mode. Rokokorezeption in der deutschen Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. Dissertation, Freiburg im Breisgau 1995, S. 196 (Digitalisat)
  5. Komplimente, Bildbeschreibung im Portal nat.museum-digital.de, retrieved 20 October 2019.

Further reading
  • Reimer, Georg. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Dresden 1898, Band 2, S. 375.
  • Reimer, Georg. In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Begründet von Ulrich Thieme und Felix Becker. Band 28: Ramsden–Rosa. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1934. 
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