Franz Meyerheim

Franz Meyerheim studied at Academy of Arts, Berlin and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Training under Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim is recorded. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are genre. Places of work recorded in the authority are Berlin, Netherlands and Belgium. Employment is recorded with Academy of Arts, Berlin. Positions recorded include teacher. Work by Franz Meyerheim is recorded in the collections of Alte Nationalgalerie, Führermuseum and Hessen Kassel Heritage.

His father was the painter Friedrich Eduard Meyerheim. His younger brother, Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, was also a painter. His first art lessons were provided by his family members. In 1854, at the age of sixteen, he entered the Prussian Academy of Arts. Four years later, he transferred to the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and had his first exhibition. He also travelled extensively, to Tyrolia, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland, making sketches of humble, rural people, who would be his primary subjects. Following a reorganization of the Prussian Academy, he was appointed Professor of anatomical drawing, a post he held until 1878, when illness forced him to retire. He died two years later, while convalescing in Marburg, at the age of forty-two. The cause of death was given as a "softening of the brain" (encephalomalacia).