Jacob Reiners
Jacob (Jakob) Reiners (28 February 1828 – 17, 19 or 21 September 1907 was a German portrait painting, portrait, genre painting, genre and landscape painting, landscape painter of the Düsseldorf school of painting. Life and career Born in Lobberich on the Lower Rhine, Reiners was the son of the dyer Peter Jacob Reiners and the dyer Sybilla Catharina (''née'' Kauertz). After his school days, he studied painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1847 to 1850 and became a master pupil of Wilhelm von Schadow and Karl Ferdinand Sohn. Other teachers were Joseph Wintergerst and Rudolf Wiegmann. In 1848, Reiners was one of the 112 co-founders of the Düsseldorf Malkasten. In addition to his artistic activities, he taught at a Gymnasium (school), gymnasium. Reiners was married to Theodora (''née'' Aldenhoven). The couple had several children, among them the later art historian Heribert Reiners, who in 1909 dedicated the work ''Die rheinischen Chorgestühle der Frühgotik in Deuts ...
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