Georg Reimer
Georg Friedrich Reimer (17 May 1828, Leipzig – 17 September 1866, Berlin) was a German genre painter from the Düsseldorf School. Life. Reimer was the only son of the bookseller Karl August Reimer (1801–1858) from his first marriage to Auguste, née Hörner (1805–1834). His grandfather and namesake was the art-loving Leipzig publisher Georg Andreas Reimer. His sister Maria Auguste (1832–1907) married the historian Theodor Mommsen in 1854. Reimer grew up in Leipzig. He received artistic training as a painter as a private student of Rudolf Jordan in Düsseldorf, where he lived for a while as a genre painter  and draftsman. He then worked in Weimar and Wiesbaden, finally settling in Berlin. His specialty was "" cabinets with galant style scenes from the Rokoko period (Neorokoko), which were considered witty by contemporary critics. After his death in 1866, Reimers stepmother Johanna, née Winter (1817–1902), bequeathed the painting "Komplimente" to the Alten Nationalgalerie, presumably at the Berlin Academy "Vorzimmerszene" exhibition in 1860, which inspired Daniel Chodowieckis's etching "Der Complimentir-Narr" in 1783. Paul Klee also took up the motif in his 1903 etching "Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich".