Conrad Meyer

Who is Conrad Meyer?

Conrad Meyer was a painter and engraver of Zürich. He was a student of Matthäus Merian. He was successful as a painter of portrait and landscapes, but later specialized on copper engraving, producing more than a thousand works. He also produced the map of Switzerland by Conrad Gyger and a Planisphaerium Coeleste.

His son Johannes Meyer was also a painter and engraver.

Landscapes

Löntschtal, 1655

Zurich in summer, ca. 1661

Zurich in winter, ca. 1661

Portraits

Johann Heinrich Waser, Mayor of Zurich 1652-69, 1654

A boy's portrait, Joseph von Orelli, 1657

Théodore de Bèze, 1676

Double portrait of the executioner Volmar and his wife, 1677