Conrad Meyer

Conrad Meyer was apprenticed to his father, the painter and engraver Dietrich Meyer the elder. In the years 1638-1642 he traveled to Bern and Solothurn and to the workshop of Matthäus Merian in Frankfurt. Back in Zurich via Augsburg, Munich and Landshut, the painter, draftsman and etcher created portraits, biblical, mythological and allegorical scenes, battles, views of the Zurich countryside and the Swiss mountains, among other things. In 1645, together with Johann Wilhelm Simler, he founded the «Neujahrsblätter»  of the Zurich library.