1879. Oil/cardboard, 22,5 x 22,5 cm, on the reverse sign. and dat. F. Heimerdinger 1879 as well as inscribed 'Eigenthum des Musentisches der Himmelsleiter Hamburg' and more inscriptions, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - The inscriptions are addressed to an apprentice painter and show with the trompe l'oeil of the wooden wall, the hand and the egg the mastery to be achieved. - German still life, animal and genre painter. H. studied at the Düsseldorf and Munich academies under Th. Hildebrandt, among others. He was the founder of a painting school in Munich and a member of the Hamburg Künstler-Verein. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle). Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Der Neue Rump a. others.