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Painter Heinrich Georg Michaelis
The growing spa business brought with it the need for mementos of all sorts. Portraits of spa guests and visual representations of the spa facilities were popular images. The painter Heinrich Georg Michaelis (1837-1915), born in Saxony, created a panoramic painting of the spa facilities, which in 1899 was used as the image for a two-part picture postcard. Michaelis had studied under Schnorr von Carolsfeld at the Dresden Academy, among others, and settled as a portrait painter in Frankfurt am Main in Hesse in 1878. Obviously, he also searched for clients among Homburg’s fashionable society, and he set up a studio in the Kurpark between the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Bad (Emperor Wilhelm Spa) and the tennis courts, which was depicted on the postcard described above for the purposes of advertising and even mentioned by name.
Illustrations (titles and descriptions in German)
Aufnahme um 1892 (nach Heinrich Georg Michaelis)
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References
StA HG, C II 5f, Nr. 25
Baeumerth, Fremde S. 134
Dessoff, Lexikon S. 96
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„Painter Heinrich Georg Michaelis“, in: Orte der Kur <https://www.lagis-hessen.de/en/odk/record/id/1259> (aufgerufen am 06.05.2026)