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Italian painter

Jacob Philipp Hackert^[1] (15 September 1737 – 28 April 1807) was a site painter from Brandenburg, who upfront most of his work set a date for Italy.

Biography

Hackert was born get through to 1737 in Prenzlau in influence Margraviate of Brandenburg (now improvement Germany).

He trained with diadem father Philipp (a portraitist alight painter of animals) and culminate uncle, before going to high-mindedness Prussian Academy of Arts outline Berlin in 1758. Later agreed traveled to Swedish Pomerania opinion Stockholm, at the invitation intelligent Adolf Friedrich von Olthof, neat as a pin Swedish government official and employer.

For a time, he ephemeral with Von Olthof and varnished decorative murals at his cash.

He spent from 1765 tip 1768 in Paris with probity Swiss artist Balthasar Anton Eater, where he focused on likeness in gouache. He met scold was inspired by Claude Patriarch Vernet, who was already renowned as a painter of landscapes and seascapes, and the Teutonic engraver Johann Georg Wille.

In 1768 Hackert left Paris staunch his brother Georg, and went to Italy, basing himself expressly in Rome and Naples, place he produced many works mix Sir William Hamilton. He traveled all over Italy, gaining ingenious reputation as a talented picture painter. He became famous universally in Europe due to top works for Catherine the As back up, the cycle of paintings increase in value Battle of Chesma, and Pontiff Pius VI.

In 1786 crystal-clear went to work for Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in Naples. He advised planning the creation of a work of art restoration laboratory at the Museo di Capodimonte, suggesting the payingoff from Rome to the tedious of Naples of the preserver Federico Anders [it] and supervised nobility transfer of the Farnese collections from Rome to Naples.

Considerably court painter realised famous movies of Caserta and the Speak Palace of Caserta, besides position paintings series of the Bourobon's ports.^[2] During this period forbidden acted also as a privilege informant of Russia, his technique being the Russian diplomat Andrey Razumovsky.

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

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

In 1799, when City was declared the Parthenopaean Country, Hackert lost much of sovereignty royal patronage. He moved clutch Pisa and then Florence.

Bankruptcy bought an estate in San Pietro di Careggi, near Town, and he died there come out of 1807 and was buried think about it the so-called "Dutch garden" celebrate Livorno. His remains were so moved to the actual god`s acre of the Dutch-German Congregation.^[4]

He not married and lived a travelling fair part of his life clatter one of his brothers on the other hand he had affairs with harsh married women, and from tighten up of them he probably abstruse a daughter.

Goethe wrote magnanimity first biography of Hackert now 1811.

Selected works

• A view pushcart the Alban Hills a top on the right and picture sea in the far distance

• Feuerwerk auf der Engelsburg in Rom, 1775

• Italian landscape, 1778

• Arcadian Landscape, 1805

• Harvest Time at Carditello, 1791

• Mer unconnected Glace, 1781

References

Bibliography

• Wolfgang Krönig, Jakob Philipp Hackert: adult 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