Jakob Maurer

1826-1887 German

German landscape painter of Kronberg colony

Jakob Maurer was a German landscape painter. Maurer studied at the Städel Art Institute and was a student of the painter Jakob Becker there. His classmate Carl Theodor Reiffenstein also influenced his artistic development in Frankfurt am Main. Maurer later moved to Düsseldorf, a center of painting training in Europe through the Düsseldorf Painting School, and was a private student of August Weber with Anton Burger, whose landscape painting was influenced by Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. Maurer lived and worked in Kronberg and was a member of the Kronberg painters' colony. Jakob Maurer died on May 2, 1887 in Kronberg at the age of over 60.

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