Suggested edit: GERMAN IMMIGRANT ARTISTS IN AMERICA:A Biographical Dictionary by Peter C.Merrill[1997]
Designer and art historian in California.Meyer left Germany at age 16 and supported himself by gardening and nursery work when he first came to California.During the 1890s he studied art in Cincinnati and Philadelphia,later going to Berlin,where he graduated from the Royal Art School.Back in the US he continued his studies at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and Design in Philadelphia.Meyer returned to California in 1897 and taught at the Lick School in San Francisco while working as an illustrator for the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE.He taught drawing in the Stockton public schools 1898-1902 and later taught at the University of California in Berkeley and at the Mark Hopkins Institute.After 1906 he founded the California School of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley, where he was president until his retirement in 1944.
thanks to Contributor: Gene

Suggested edit: GERMAN IMMIGRANT ARTISTS IN AMERICA:A Biographical Dictionary by Peter C.Merrill[1997]
Designer and art historian in California.Meyer left Germany at age 16 and supported himself by gardening and nursery work when he first came to California.During the 1890s he studied art in Cincinnati and Philadelphia,later going to Berlin,where he graduated from the Royal Art School.Back in the US he continued his studies at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and Design in Philadelphia.Meyer returned to California in 1897 and taught at the Lick School in San Francisco while working as an illustrator for the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE.He taught drawing in the Stockton public schools 1898-1902 and later taught at the University of California in Berkeley and at the Mark Hopkins Institute.After 1906 he founded the California School of Arts and Crafts in Berkeley, where he was president until his retirement in 1944.
thanks to Contributor: Gene