Title: Autumn Wind  (note movement of tree foliage and rushes at center and right of plate).
Meyer was from Munich.

The following overview of Meyer’s work by Fritz Matthies-Masuren appeared in the Photographische Rundschau und Mitteilungen for 1912:

For some time now, we have counted Albert Meyer from Munich among the most deserving contributors to the illustrative section of our magazine. In this issue 9, he shows his most recent works (including “Before the Rain” and “In the Village” [Cat. No. 98]), which cannot be judged from the usual point of view of amateur photography, because they go beyond what is generally characteristic of amateur photography. It is not just the fact that these are enlargements and rubber prints that is decisive, but even more so the whole way of seeing nature and reproducing impressions. .. Meyer only gives atmospheric pictures, the charm of which lies in the balance of tonal values. He seeks the painterly effect in monochrome. As much as has already been said and written about this goal, as much as there has been opposition to combining the painterly with the photographic, we believe that without such efforts, serious activity in the field of photography will not be possible on the artistic side. It is only natural to give pretty photographic sections of nature the rounded appearance that corresponds roughly to the reproduction of a painting.

And Albert Meyer’s pictures prove just how far the photographer can go in this direction without being a painter himself. If we take… “Before the Rain” … or another of his current or earlier pictures, we always have the impression of a self-contained picture, of a painterly treatment of the motif, of the almost complete suppression of detail in favor of appearance, of the emergence of the essential… One looks at pictures like those given by Meyer without any prejudice and in the conviction that they are really just photographs and relatively easy to produce photographs, and one will have to admit that their style cannot be eradicated for the time being. (pp. 145-6)