Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim

After further studies with the architect and painter Johann Adam Breysig, he went to Berlin in 1830 and enrolled at the Prussian Academy of Art.

After graduating, he wandered about with his friend, the future Prussian court architect Heinrich Strack, and produced numerous architectural drawings, primarily of churches and older Backsteingotik brick buildings.

His first original work, the Schützenfest westfälischer Bauern (Westphalian Peasants Hunting Party) was painted in 1836 and bought by Joachim Heinrich Wilhelm Wagener, the Swedish-Norwegian Consul, from whose estate it entered the National Gallery (Berlin).

[1] Under the influence of the Düsseldorf school of painting, he spent the years 1833-1841 producing works in the Romantic genre style.

[1] His brother, Wilhelm Alexander Meyerheim (1815–1882), specialized in genre paintings, pictures of horses and military subjects.