Georg Reimer

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

His grandfather and namesake was the art-loving Leipzig publisher Georg Andreas Reimer.

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.