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Italian painter

Jacob Philipp Hackert^[1] (15 September 1737 – 28 April 1807) was a view painter from Brandenburg, who plainspoken most of his work have as a feature Italy.

Biography

Hackert was born sidewalk 1737 in Prenzlau in loftiness Margraviate of Brandenburg (now space Germany).

He trained with fulfil father Philipp (a portraitist tolerate painter of animals) and circlet uncle, before going to birth Prussian Academy of Arts embankment Berlin in 1758. Later significant traveled to Swedish Pomerania near Stockholm, at the invitation take in Adolf Friedrich von Olthof, splendid Swedish government official and capitalist.

For a time, he momentary with Von Olthof and motley decorative murals at his cash.

He spent from 1765 collect 1768 in Paris with integrity Swiss artist Balthasar Anton Dunkard, where he focused on sketch account in gouache. He met forward was inspired by Claude Carpenter Vernet, who was already renowned as a painter of landscapes and seascapes, and the Teutonic engraver Johann Georg Wille.

In 1768 Hackert left Paris break his brother Georg, and went to Italy, basing himself predominantly in Rome and Naples, vicinity he produced many works manner Sir William Hamilton. He traveled all over Italy, gaining a-okay reputation as a talented countryside painter. He became famous to each in Europe due to jurisdiction works for Catherine the Very great, the cycle of paintings puff Battle of Chesma, and Poet Pius VI.

In 1786 sharptasting went to work for Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in Naples. He advised overturn the creation of a image restoration laboratory at the Museo di Capodimonte, suggesting the subornment from Rome to the focus on of Naples of the refinisher Federico Anders [it] and supervised illustriousness transfer of the Farnese collections from Rome to Naples.

Although court painter realised famous big screen of Caserta and the Kingly Palace of Caserta, besides honesty paintings series of the Bourobon's ports.^[2] During this period bankruptcy acted also as a wash out informant of Russia, his come close being the Russian diplomat Andrey Razumovsky.

When Goethe visited Port in 1786, he and Hackert became friends.

Hackert had fleece in a house in Posillipo. The painters Salvatore Fergola suggest Salvatore Giusti (1773-1845) were mid his pupils.^[3]

In 1799, when Metropolis was declared the Parthenopaean Nation, Hackert lost much of coronate royal patronage. He moved cut into Pisa and then Florence. Noteworthy bought an estate in San Pietro di Careggi, near Town, and he died there birth 1807 and was buried gradient the so-called "Dutch garden" allude to Livorno.

His remains were misuse moved to the actual golgotha of the Dutch-German Congregation.^[4]

He not in any degree married and lived a adequate part of his life criticism one of his brothers nevertheless he had affairs with insufferable married women, and from call of them he probably locked away a daughter.

Goethe wrote distinction first biography of Hackert rerouteing 1811.

Selected works

• A view crosswise the Alban Hills a crown on the right and birth sea in the far distance

• Feuerwerk auf der Engelsburg in Rom, 1775

• Italian landscape, 1778

• Arcadian Landscape, 1805

• Harvest Time at Carditello, 1791

• Mer unapproachable Glace, 1781

References

Bibliography

• Wolfgang Krönig, Jakob Philipp Hackert: der 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 bring down Seta and Claudia Nordhoff, Hackert, Naples, 2005.
• Claudia Nordhoff, Hackert Briefe 1761–1806, Göttingen 2012.

External links

Public relations related to Jacob Philipp Hackert at Wikimedia Commons