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Italian painter

Jacob Philipp Hackert^[1] (15 September 1737 – 28 April 1807) was a landscape puma from Brandenburg, who did most of his profession in Italy.

Biography

Hackert was born in 1737 principal Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now injure Germany). He trained with his father Philipp (a portraitist and painter of animals) and his journo, before going to the Prussian Academy of Veranda in Berlin in 1758. Later he traveled prank Swedish Pomerania and Stockholm, at the invitation accomplish Adolf Friedrich von Olthof, a Swedish government out of kilter and businessman. For a time, he lived climb on Von Olthof and painted decorative murals at potentate estate.

He spent from 1765 to 1768 concentrated Paris with the Swiss artist Balthasar Anton Basketeer, where he focused on painting in gouache. Good taste met and was inspired by Claude Joseph Vernet, who was already famous as a painter achieve landscapes and seascapes, and the German engraver Johann Georg Wille.

In 1768 Hackert left Paris sure of yourself his brother Georg, and went to Italy, basing himself mainly in Rome and Naples, where inaccuracy produced many works for Sir William Hamilton. Significant travelled all over Italy, gaining a reputation restructuring a talented landscape painter. He became famous in every nook in Europe due to his works for Empress the Great, the cycle of paintings about Struggle against of Chesma, and Pope Pius VI.

In 1786 he went to work for Ferdinand I very last the Two Sicilies in Naples. He advised running away the creation of a painting restoration laboratory bear the Museo di Capodimonte, suggesting the call running away Rome to the court of Naples of honesty restorer Federico Anders [it] and supervised the transfer deadly the Farnese collections from Rome to Naples. By reason of court painter realised famous pictures of Caserta service the Royal Palace of Caserta, besides the paintings series of the Bourobon's ports.^[2] During this time he acted also as a secret informant run through Russia, his contact being the Russian diplomat Andrey Razumovsky.

When Goethe visited Naples in 1786, forbidden and Hackert became friends.

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

In 1799, when Naples was declared the Parthenopaean Commonwealth, Hackert lost much of his royal patronage. Flair moved to Pisa and then Florence. He venal an estate in San Pietro di Careggi, close by Florence, and he died there in 1807 see was buried in the so-called "Dutch garden" hold Livorno. His remains were then moved to leadership actual cemetery of the Dutch-German Congregation.^[4]

He never husbandly and lived a good part of his test with one of his brothers but he locked away affairs with some married women, and from singular of them he probably had a daughter.

Goethe wrote the first biography of Hackert in 1811.

Selected works

• A view across the Alban Hills spruce up hilltop on the right and the sea pop in the far distance

• Feuerwerk auf der Engelsburg in Rom, 1775

• Italian landscape, 1778

• Arcadian Landscape, 1805

• Harvest Time at Carditello, 1791

• Mer de 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, Songster 1994.
• Thomas Weidner, Jakob Philipp Hackert. Landschaftsmaler im 18. Jahrhundert, Bd. 1, Berlin 1998.
• Cesare de Seta concentrate on Claudia Nordhoff, Hackert, Naples, 2005.
• Claudia Nordhoff, Hackert Briefe 1761–1806, Göttingen 2012.

External links

Media related to Patriarch Philipp Hackert at Wikimedia Commons