Jakob Alt
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Jakob Alt (27 September 1789 – 30 September 1872) was a German painter and lithographer.
Life[]
Alt was born at Frankfurt am Main in 1789, where he received his early artistic education. Later he moved to Vienna and entered the Academy. He soon became noted as a landscape painter and made various journeys throughout Austria and Italy, painting, as he went along, views in the neighborhood of the Danube and in the city of Vienna.[1]
In later life Alt painted a lot in watercolor; he was also a lithographer.[1] In 1830 the future Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria began a project to commission paintings of the most beautiful views in the Empire. Alt, and his eldest son, Rudolf von Alt painted about 170 of the 300 works executed before the scheme came to an end in 1849.[2]
He died in Vienna in 1872.[1]
Gallery[]
The blue grotto in Capri
Venice, 1835
View of Rome, 1837 watercolor now in the Albertina, Vienna
Stiebar Castle, Austria, 1834
Dubrovnik bay, 1840
Innsbruck, 1845
Jablunkov, 1840
Wien
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Bryan & 1886–9.
- ^ Rewald, Sabine (2011). Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 140. ISBN 9781588394132.
Sources[]
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Alt, Jakob". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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