Arthur Heyer

Arthur Heyer (28 February 1872, Haarhausen, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, German Empire – 1931, Budapest, Hungary) was a German-Hungarian painter who primarily painted animals.

In 1909, he also had two exhibitions at his earlier home in Thuringia, the Grand Ducal Museum in Weimar and the Kunstverein Gotha.

In 1931, he died in Budapest at the age of 59 and received a state funeral at Kerepesi Cemetery.

In addition to his early satirical drawings, Heyer also painted animal pictures, especially cats.

There are numerous pictures, often commissioned by the artist, in which Turkish Angora cats, painted in many shades, are depicted in naturalistic terms.