MATTHIAS MEYER was born in Göttingen, Germany in 1969. He studied art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Gerhard Richter and was named "student of honor" (Meisterschüler) in Richter’s last master class in 1994. Meyer was also a guest student in 1994 at London’s Chelsea College of Art, and in the same year received the distinguished Max Ernst Award of the City of Brühl. In 1995, he was the German laureate of the European Art Competition of the Schweizer Bankverein in London. In 2018, an exhibition of Meyer’s paintings was held at the Rosenhang Museum, Weilburg, and in 2017, the Kunstmuseum Mülheim an der Ruhr also presented an exhibition of his work. Matthias Meyer currently lives and works in Germany.