Louis Mayer (painter)

The shore of the Neckar in Heilbronn (c. 1840)

Louis Mayer (23 May 1791 in Neckarbischofsheim – 18 November 1843 in Stuttgart), born Ludwig Hartmann Mayer, was a German landscape painter and brother to the poet Karl Mayer.

He studied painting in Stuttgart as a pupil of Gottlob Friedrich Steinkopf (1779–1861). On his study travels, he visited Swabia, Switzerland, Tyrol, Styria and Italy.[1]

References

  1. ^ John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins, eds. (1887). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. C. Scribner's sons. p. 226.
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