Jakob Alt

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Jakob Alt (1789–1872) 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 Emperpr 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

Venice, 1835
View of Rome, 1837 watercolor now in the Albertina, Vienna
Stiebar Castle, Austria, 1834
Roman Forum, 1835
Innsbruck, 1845
Jablunkov, 1840

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 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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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 54948720 LCCN: n82113111 ISNI: 0000 0000 8384 0494 GND: 119012758

Persondata
Name	Alt, Jakob
Alternative names
Short description	Painter
Date of birth	1789
Place of birth	Frankfurt-am-Main
Date of death	1872
Place of death	Vienna

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