Art Journal (1879), 48; Appleton's Journal (1869), ii. 118; Lippincott's Mag., xiv. 758; American Architect, v. 54; Bruno Meyer, Studien, 96; Meyer, Gesch.; Zeitsch., i. 173; ii. 124; viii. 104; D. Rundschau, xvi. 310; Vom Fels zum Meer, vii. 106.
MEISSNER, ERNST ADOLF, born at
Dresden, April 12, 1837. Animal and landscape
painter, pupil of Dresden Academy
and Kummer; spent 1860-61 in Zürich,
1868 in Rome, and settled in Munich in
1870. Many of his pictures are in America.
Works: Pilgrimage on Lake Kochel; Mill
on the Elbe near Dresden; Transportation
of Cattle in Winter; Scattered Sheep,
Vienna Academy; Returning Herd in
Winter (1875), Dresden Gallery; Sheep on
Flight; Sheep with Lambs; On the Alp;
Sunday Afternoon (Jubilee Exhib., Berlin,
1886.—Müller, 362.
MEISTER ARNOLD, of Würzburg, 14th
century. German school; a master of
equal fame in Franconia to that of Meister
Wilhelm on the Nether Rhine. No work
can be attributed to him directly, but the
altarpiece of Pähl (about 1400), National
Museum, Munich, is of his school.—Meyer,
Künst. Lex., ii. 272.
MEISTER STEPHAN, born at Constance,
died in Cologne in 1451. German
school; real name Stephan Lochner. Possibly
a pupil of Meister Wilhelm, and the
most famous master of mediæval art. He
settled, and bought a house, in Cologne in
1442; the guild of St. Luke chose him to
represent their corporation in the senate in
1448, and again in 1451, in which year he
died in poverty in a hospital. In him the
school of Cologne attained its highest form
of originality. Works: Triptych (known as
Dombild, after 1426), Cologne Cathedral;
Madonna in der Rosenlaube, Cologne Museum;
replica (?), Old Pinakothek, Munich;
Madonna with the Violets (?), Archiepiscopal
Museum, Cologne; Presentation in the Temple
(? 1447), Darmstadt Gallery; Three
Saints, National Gallery, London.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xix. 69; Ch. Blanc, École allemande;
C. & C., Flemish Painters, 350;
Förster, Gesch., i. 211; ii. 152; do., Denkmale,
ii. 19; iv. 13; Kugler (Crowe), i. 126;
Kugler, Kl. Schriften, ii. 294-300, 350, 352,
524; Merlo, Meister d. altköln. Malersch.,
108, 200; Schnaase, vi. 413; W. & W., ii. 87.
MEISTER WILHELM, born at Herle,
Limburg, died in Cologne in 1378. German
school. The earliest known representative
of the ancient school of Cologne, where
he painted from 1358 to 1372, and the best
German artist of his time; he is mentioned
in the Limburg Chronicle of 1380, as "a
famous painter in Cologne, whose equal was
not to be found in Christendom, and who
painted a man as though he lived." Childlike
innocence, tenderness of sentiment, and
remarkable purity of expression characterize
the faces and graceful, slender figures painted
by Master Wilhelm with sweet and tender
colour. Works: Clara Altar, Cologne
Cathedral; Christ Crucified, Sacristy of St.
Severin's, Cologne; Small Altarpiece, w. Virgin
w. Bean Blossom, Cologne Museum;
Madonna with Saints, Chapter Room of Halberstadt
Cathedral; St. Veronica with the
Handkerchief (?), Old Pinakothek, Munich;
do. (?), National Gallery, London.—Ch.
Blanc, École allemande; C. & C., Flemish
Painters, 346; Förster, Gesch., i. 204; do.,
Denkmale, v. 7; Kugler (Crowe), i. 43;
Kugler, Kl. Schriften, ii. 288-91, 352, 524;
Kunstblatt (1855), 157; Merlo, Meister d.
altköln. Malersch., 31; Schnaase, vi. 391;
W. & W., i. 399.
MEISTER, NICOLAS, born at Coblentz.
Landscape painter, younger brother and
pupil of Simon, with whom he went to Cologne
about 1833; painted the landscape in
the panorama and dioramas mentioned under
Simon. Works: Views of Coblentz;
Rolandseck with Siebengebirge, and Castle
Rheinstein (1834); Ravine with Ruin
(1839); View of Neuwied (1848).—Merlo,
Nachrichten, 279.
MEISTER, SIMON, born at Coblentz
in 1803, died in Cologne, Feb: 29, 1844.
History painter, pupil in Paris of Horace
