Animalistic Biedermeier
Simon Meister
Koblenz 20.12.1796 — Cologne 29.02.1844
Simon Meister was a German painter. His subjects were portraits, battle scenes and animal fights. Religious themes apparently played no significant role in his work, but his depictions of the Cologne Carnival are significant in terms of cultural history. A commercial enterprise was the panoramas painted together with his brother showing the passage of French troops across the Rhine in 1797. Many of Meister's paintings were also reproduced as lithographs. He is considered one of the most important Rhenish painters of the Biedermeier period.
1796–1844
