At the Gymnasium, Friedhard Meyer had an art teacher who actively sought out talented schoolboys, and he was considered one of the teacher’s favorites. His works were often presented in front of the class, and he was regularly invited to participate in school exhibitions. Throughout his studies at the Technical University, he continued to paint for himself. From 1971 to 1973, he received artistic education at the Volkshochschule in Schweinfurt. In 1979, he held his first gallery exhibition, showcasing his watercolours. Until 1992, he worked exclusively with watercolour. Then, he made a radical shift toward vibrant colours and began creating large acrylic paintings, using thin layers of colour spread across the canvas. In the years that followed, he experimented with various acrylic techniques and developed his own methods: the Rakel technique, collage, The Colour White, needle technique, and, most recently, over the past two years, the New Pointillism. Over the years, he exhibited his work worldwide and participated in art fairs with numerous galleries.

Publications
– Watercolour Painting from Northern Bavaria, City Historical Museums, Nuremberg
– Landscapes of Creation, Eulen Verlag, Freiburg, 1986
– Fascination of Watercolour, arte-factum Verlag, Nuremberg, 1988
– Indirect Painting, Palette Verlag, Koblenz, 2005
– Metamorphosis through the Colour White, Palette Verlag, Koblenz, 2015
– Nadelwald, Palette Verlag, Koblenz, 2021
– Friedhard Meyer as an Artist Around the Globe, Naumann Beck Verlag, 2022
– Märchenwald, Palette Verlag, 2023

Exhibitions (Selection)
2007 – Galerie Thuillier, Paris, France
     – Art Fair Stockholm, Sweden
     – ARTEXPO New York, USA
2008 – Art Fair Shanghai, China
2009 – Galerie Bertrand Kass, Innsbruck, Austria
2010 – Galerie Artodrome, Berlin/Beijing
     – Opera Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
     – LDX Gallery, Beijing, China
2011 – Art Fair Taipei, Taiwan, with Galerie Artodrome
     – The Colour White, Kreisgalerie Mellrichstadt
2012 – Art Palm Beach, Florida
     – Art Fair Taipei, Taiwan
     – Automatenmuseum Falaise, France
     – Lisbon, Medina del Campo with Colectivo C.
2013 – Art Beijing, China, with Galerie Artodrome
     – Florence Design Week Exhibition, Florence, Italy
     – Biennale of Chianciano, Italy
2014 – Art Innsbruck, Austria
     – Gallery Steiner, Vienna, Austria
     – The Colour White, Kunststation Kleinsassen
     – Ancient Palaces, Varenna, Italy
2015 – Art Innsbruck, Austria
     – Bank Schilling, Bad Neustadt
     – Art Space Gallery, New York
2016 – Galerie M. Beck, Homburg/Saar
     – Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon
     – ARTMUC, Munich
     – KITZ-ART Art Gallery, Kitzbühel
2017 – Altes Amtshaus, Bad Neustadt
     – Art Market Budapest, with Galerie M. Beck
2018 – Young and Modern Art, Doha, Qatar, with Galerie USIA.CO.UK
     – Spitäle, Würzburg, solo exhibition (VKU)
     – Franck-Haus, Marktheidenfeld, solo exhibition
2019 – London Art Biennale, with Galerie Gagliardi
     – ARTMUC Munich, with Parcus Gallery, Berlin
     – Paris Art Fair, with Parcus Gallery
     – André Evard Prize, Exhibition of Nominees, Kunsthalle Messmer, Riegel
     – Sparkasse Bad Neustadt
     – CFA Award, Exhibition of Finalists
2020 – Sonia Monti Gallery, Paris
     – Kreisgalerie Mellrichstadt
     – Marktheidenfeld Art Prize
2021 – ITS LIQUID Group, Venice
     – Nürnberger Nachrichten Art Prize
     – Art Fair Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
2022 – Discovery Art Fair, Frankfurt
     – Art Market Budapest
     – Galerie M. Beck, Homburg
     – RHÖN-KLINIKUM, Campus Bad Neustadt
2023 – Stadthalle Bad Neustadt
     – Art Karlsruhe
2024 – Kunstverein Bad Neustadt
     – Galerie M. Beck, Beauty Ideals

Art Prizes and Awards
2005 – First Prize, Palm Art Award, Art-Domain Gallery, Leipzig
2006 – Entry in WHO’S WHO in Visual Art (2006–2007)
2007 – Gold Medal, International Exhibition M.C.A., Cannes-Azur, France
2008 – Entry in WHO’S WHO in Visual Art (2008/2009, 2012/2013, 2014/2015)
2010 – Diploma of Excellence, Art Now, Artoteque, London
2015 – Certificate of Excellence, 16th Art Contest, Artavita
2016 – Award of Excellence, New Beginnings, Manhattan Arts International (2016–2017)
2021 – 1st Prize, Blue Art Contest, Grey Cube Gallery
2022 – Artist of the Month (June), Award of Excellence, Circle Foundation
2024 – Masterpiece Award, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Statement
“Mostly the individual elements of my pictures pop out of my imagination spontaneously during the working porocess. Often the themes develop playfully during the work. The idea for a picture and its design emerge interdependently, i.e. during the working process new piocture ideas can appear that are then later realised during the continued course of the work through the appropriate choice of colour and shape. The development of the picture takes place so to speak in a phased, gradual interplay between its design and its idea”

“To create a Ponitillistic artwork is a meditative process characterized trough extreme slowliness which is a great present in our fast-living time. To create such a painting is a big increase of the life feeling”