Gustav Jäger (12 July 1808 in

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– 19 April 1871 in Leipzig) was a German painter.

Life

Jäger began his training in Leipzig, before continuing it at the Akademie in

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. In 1830 he moved to

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, to work in the studio of

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (26 March 1794 – 24 May 1872) () was a German painter, chiefly of Biblical subjects. As a young man he associated with the painters of the Nazarene movement who revived the florid Renaissance style in religious ar ...

. He moved to Rome in 1836, where he painted ''Balaam and the Angel'', before moving back to Munich the following year. There he was one of the artists commissioned to work on the Königsbau frescoes, in his case the Habsburgsaal and the Barbarossasaal, along with the smaller paintings in the Saal Karls d. Gr. Returning to oil painting, he next painted ''The Burial of Christ''. In 1847 he became the director of the Akademie in Leipzig, though in 1850 he took on the completion of one of Schnorr's major frescoes in the fourth Nibelungensaal in Munich. In 1848 he completed the Herder-Zimmer in the Stadtschloss Weimar. Other murals by him are to be found in churches in Schönefeld and Klein-Pötzschau near Leipzig, as well as the Aula of the Teichmannschen Unterrichtsanstalt. His canvases include ''Mary Magdalene washing Christ's feet''. He also produced the

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''Christ as the Prince of Peace'' for the Christuskirche church at Rüdigsdorf, Kohren-Sahlis.

Bibliography

Hyacinth Holland Hyacinth Holland (16 August 1827 – 16 January 1918) was a German art and literature historian. Life Born in Munich, Holland was a son of the lawyer Christoph Holland and his wife Karoline Seel. In 1846 he passed the Abitur at the Wilhelm ...

Jaeger, Gustav
In:

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(ADB). Band 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, S. 649 f. {{DEFAULTSORT:Jager, Gustav 1808 births 1871 deaths 19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters Nazarene painters