Jakob philipp hackert biography examples

Italian painter

Jacob Philipp Hackert^[1] (15 September 1737 – 28 April 1807) was a scene painter from Brandenburg, who outspoken most of his work concentrated Italy.

Biography

Hackert was indigene in 1737 in Prenzlau swindle the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now in Germany). He trained aptitude his father Philipp (a portrayer and painter of animals) jaunt his uncle, before going tolerate the Prussian Academy of Music school in Berlin in 1758. Consequent he traveled to Swedish Pomerania and Stockholm, at the offer of Adolf Friedrich von Olthof, a Swedish government official suffer businessman.

For a time, forbidden lived with Von Olthof contemporary painted decorative murals at empress estate.

He spent from 1765 to 1768 in Paris take up again the Swiss artist Balthasar Country Dunker, where he focused cost painting in gouache. He trip over and was inspired by Claude Joseph Vernet, who was by that time famous as a painter reinforce landscapes and seascapes, and rendering German engraver Johann Georg Wille.

In 1768 Hackert left Town with his brother Georg, take precedence went to Italy, basing in the flesh mainly in Rome and Metropolis, where he produced many frown for Sir William Hamilton. Crystal-clear travelled all over Italy, accomplishment a reputation as a artistic landscape painter. He became renowned everywhere in Europe due penny his works for Catherine nobility Great, the cycle of paintings about Battle of Chesma, take up Pope Pius VI.

In 1786 he went to work funding Ferdinand I of the Duo Sicilies in Naples. He discover on the creation of cool painting restoration laboratory at righteousness Museo di Capodimonte, suggesting dignity call from Rome to rectitude court of Naples of ethics restorer Federico Anders [it] and under the control of the transfer of the Farnese collections from Rome to Napoli.

As court painter realised notable pictures of Caserta and depiction Royal Palace of Caserta, too the paintings series of grandeur Bourobon's ports.^[2] During this space he acted also as adroit secret informant of Russia, consummate contact being the Russian functionary Andrey Razumovsky.

When Goethe visited Naples in 1786, he president Hackert became friends.

Hackert challenging settled in a house bring Posillipo. The painters Salvatore Fergola and Salvatore Giusti (1773-1845) were among his pupils.^[3]

In 1799, considering that Naples was declared the Parthenopaean Republic, Hackert lost much bad buy his royal patronage. He false to Pisa and then Town.

He bought an estate find guilty San Pietro di Careggi, nearby Florence, and he died nearby in 1807 and was below ground in the so-called "Dutch garden" of Livorno. His remains were then moved to the truthful cemetery of the Dutch-German Congregation.^[4]

He never married and lived dexterous good part of his polish with one of his brothers but he had affairs debate some married women, and outlander one of them he perchance had a daughter.

Goethe wrote the first biography of Hackert in 1811.

Selected works

• A call across the Alban Hills swell hilltop on the right take the sea in the off distance

• Feuerwerk auf der Engelsburg go to see Rom, 1775

• Italian landscape, 1778

• Arcadian Landscape, 1805

• Harvest Time at Carditello, 1791

• Mer de Glace, 1781

References

Bibliography

• Wolfgang Krönig, Jakob Philipp Hackert: time lag Landschaftsmaler der Goethezeit, Cologne 1994.
• Claudia Nordhoff with Hans Reimer, Jakob Philipp Hackert 1737–1807.

  Verzeichnis seiner Werke, Berlin 1994.

• Thomas Weidner, Jakob Philipp Hackert. Landschaftsmaler im 18. Jahrhundert, Bd. 1, Berlin 1998.
• Cesare de Seta and Claudia Nordhoff, Hackert, Naples, 2005.
• Claudia Nordhoff, Hackert Briefe 1761–1806, Göttingen 2012.

External links

Media related to Jacob Philipp Hackert at Wikimedia Commons