Johann Adam Ackermann (November 3, 1780 – March 27, 1853) was a German

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or man-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes the ...

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of the early 19th century. He was born in

Mainz Mainz () is the capital and largest city of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...

and moved to

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in 1804. His best-known works are his winter landscapes and

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s. He died in Frankfurt. Johann Ackermann was the brother of Georg Friedrich Ackermann (1787, Mainz – 1843, Frankfurt am Main), who also painted landscapes but with less success.

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* ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' 1780 births 1853 deaths Artists from Mainz 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists German male painters 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists {{Germany-painter-stub

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