Jakob Alt
Austrian landscape painter and lithographer
Jakob Alt was a German painter and lithographer. Alt was born at Frankfurt am Main in 1789, where he received his early artistic education. Later he moved to Vienna and entered the Academy. He soon became noted as a landscape painter and made various journeys throughout Austria and Italy, painting, as he went along, views in the neighborhood of the Danube and in the city of Vienna. In later life Alt painted a lot in watercolor; 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 painted about 170 of the 300 works executed before the scheme came to an end in 1849. He died in Vienna in 1872.
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- Franz Alt Child
Artworks by this artist
- Der Stephansdom in Wien 1850
- Blick auf San Giorgio Maggiore in Venedig 1834
- Landschaft mit weidenden Kühen 1817
- Burgruine zu Theben bei Preßburg
- Stift Stams 1832
- Stephansdom in Wien 1852
- Bick auf Böckstein 1826
- Castellamare am Golf von Neapel 1837
- A Seated Man Contemplating a Sunlit Mountain Valley c. 1825
- Ansicht von Turin 1846
- A view of Monte Pellegrino seen from Palermo
- A view of Dobrota towards Mula in the Canale of Cattaro
- Das Rothe Kloster in der Zips 1838
- View of Vienna from the Spinner on the Cross, 1817
- Praterlandschaft ca. 1850[-]1860
- Wanderer in the Salzkammergut, the Grundlsee Lake Dam with the River Traun, in the Background on the Left the Backenstein 1838
- II. Donaugegend ca. 1850
- Zips 1838
- The Garden of Laudaya 1841
- A View of the Regensburg Cathedral 1842