Jakob Alt
Illustrations
Dubrovnik (then called Ragusa)
View of Bockstein in the Gastein Valley with the Church of Mary of the good advice
Castellammare on the Gulf of Naples
Regensburg, view from the northwest with Steinerne bridge
Regensburg, Donaustauf, ruins of the castle with its ancient course of the river Danube
A Seated Man Contemplating A Sunlit Mountain Valley
Jakob Alt (27 September 1789 – 30 September 1872) was a German painter and lithographer.
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. In later life Alt painted a lot in watercolor; he was also a lithographer. 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.
He died in Vienna in 1872.[1]
References
Bryan 1886–9.
Rewald, Sabine (2011). Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 140.
Sources
This article incorporates text from the article "ALT, Jakob" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.
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