Arthur Meyer Zu Kueingdorf

Arthur Meyer zu Kueingdorf was born in 1920 in a small town named Kueingdorf in northwest germany. As one of 5 sons of a farmer.

From 1939 to 1945 he was with the German army.

In 1946, the Landeskunstschule (College of Fine Arts) in Hamburg reopened after the Second World War. Among the first students to enrol were Horst Janssen, Paul Wunderlich and Arthur Meyer zu Kueingdorf — whose extraordinary artistic and technical talents, which had become apparent early on, helped paved the way.

Art was his life. He always defined himself as a classic European artist in the tradition of the French Impressionists.

He drew and painted at his parent's estate in Kueingdorf, later in Crete as a soldier, then in Hamburg where he recorded experiences during his studies in hundreds of sketches, then in Westphalia, which became his home — but also in Spain, France, Italy, Greece, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, America, and Canada — and, of course, in Germany, on the Moselle, on the Baltic and North Seas, in the moors of Worpswede and the hills of Lipperland.

Arthur Meyer zu Kueingdorf was always in search of the image, the motif that he could dedicate his whole attention to. Clearly, focused, and always with a bold brushs...

Excellent education on the Hamburger Kunstakademie from 1948 - 1952 together with Horst Janssen and Paul Wunderlich.

From the mid-1950s until the year 2000, there were 2 - 4 exhibitions per year, with a focus on North Rhine-Westphalia, in places like Bad Oeynhausen, Minden, Bielefeld, Detmold, Herford, Melle, Osnabrück, Rinteln and also in mid and southern Germany, such as Bad Kissingen, Bad Solingen, Baden-Baden etc. pp