Jakob Alt (27 September 1789 – 30 September 1872) was a German painter and

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Alt was the son of Barbara Alt, nee Horst, and Frankfurt carpenter Johann Leonhart Alt. He was born at

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in 1789, where he received his early artistic education. Later he moved to

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and entered the

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. He soon became noted as a

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and made various journeys throughout Austria and Italy, painting, as he went along, views in the neighborhood of the

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and in the city of Vienna. In later life Alt painted a lot in

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; he was also a lithographer. In 1830 the future Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria began a project to commission paintings of the most beautiful views in the Empire. Alt, and his eldest son,

Rudolf von Alt Rudolf Ritter von Alt (; 28 August 1812 – 12 March 1905) was an Austrian landscape and architectural painter. Born as Rudolf Alt, he could call himself von Alt and bear the title of a Ritter (knight) after he gained nobility in 1889. Biogra ...

painted about 170 of the 300 works executed before the scheme came to an end in 1849. Alt's extensive

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is now in the Lower Austrian State Museum . He died in Vienna in 1872.

Gallery

File:Jakob Alt - Die Blaue Grotte auf der Insel Capri - 1835-36.jpeg, The blue grotto in Capri File:Jakob Alt - Panoramaansicht von Venedig - ca 1835.jpeg, Venice, 1835 File:Jakob Alt - Blick auf Rom - 1837.jpg, ''View of Rome'', 1837

now in the

Albertina, Vienna The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as wel ...

File:Jakob Alt - Blick auf Schloss Stiebar bei Gresten in Niederösterreich - 1834.jpg, Stiebar Castle, Austria, 1834 File:Dubrovnik bay c1840.jpg,

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bay, 1840 File:Jakob Alt - Hofburg und Franziskanerkirche in Innsbruck - 1845.jpeg,

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, 1845 File:Jakob Alt - Das Städchen Jablunkau im Teschner Kreis - 1840.jpeg,

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, 1840 File:Jakob Alt 001.jpg, Wien

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19th-century German painters 19th-century German male artists German male painters 1789 births 1872 deaths Artists from Frankfurt Academy of Fine Arts Vienna alumni German lithographers German watercolourists {{Germany-painter-stub

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