Jakob Alt

Jakob Alt ( born September 27, 1789 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 30, 1872 in Vienna ) was a German -Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and lithographer.

Life

Jakob Alt received his first art lessons in his native city of Frankfurt am Main. Since 1811, he studied at the Vienna Academy history painting with Friedrich August Brand and Martin von Molitor and trained on many study tours to the Austrian Danube and Alpine areas even as a landscape painter. In the years 1828 and 1833 he traveled northern Italy twice and also stopped some time in Rome.

In later years, Alt worked primarily as a watercolorist ( Views of Rome for Emperor Ferdinand I ) and provided a lot of the templates for the lithographed and published by Adolf Friedrich Kunike Work " 264 Danube views on the course of the river Danube ... " which was published in Vienna from 1820 to 1826. He also created a number of other consequences of view, including the " Scenic Danube trip from Engelharts cell to Vienna ." His extensive herbarium is now in the Lower Austrian Provincial Museum.

Jakob Alt was the father and first teacher of the painter Rudolf and Franz Alt. He died in Vienna in 1872.

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