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Artist Index Jakob Alt
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
Jakob Alt (1789–1872), a German painter, was born at Frankfurt-on-the-Main in 1789 and received his first instruction in art in his native city. Later he moved to Vienna and entered the Academy. He soon rose to fame 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 much in watercolor; he was also an engraver on stone. He died in Vienna in 1872. One of his best works is View in Venice, in the Belvedere Gallery, signed and dated 1834. He was employed by the Emperor Ferdinand to paint watercolor views of Rome.
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 1889 publication now in the public domain. External links Jakob Alt at ArtCyclopedia Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/ ", Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ==--==--==
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