J. Metzler

J. Metzler was a German artist of the

Düsseldorf school Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

. His works were made between the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century and were very popular at that time. He was specialised in

Landscape art Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent composi ...

and painted mostly the Rhine valleys (especially the

Lower Rhine The Lower Rhine (german: Niederrhein; kilometres 660 to 1,033 of the river Rhine) flows from Bonn, Germany, to the North Sea at Hook of Holland, Netherlands (including the Nederrijn or "Nether Rhine" within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta); al ...

near Düsseldorf) but also landscapes everywhere in Germany. Until today the identity of this famous painter of the past remains unknown. 19th-century German painters German male painters {{Germany-painter-stub