Jacob philipp hackert biography of william hill

          Biography: "Jakob Philipp Hackert was born in Prenzlau on September 15, Hackert was taught by his father, the portrait painter Philipp Hackert.

        1. German painter, draftsman.
        2. Jakob Philipp Hackert began his training with his father Philipp Hackert, a portrait artist, and between.
        3. Following his artistic training in Berlin () and a longer stay in Paris (), the landscape painter Jakob Philipp Hackert.
        4. Oil painting on canvas, The Excavations at Pompeii by Jakob Philipp Hackert (Prenzlau – San Piero di Careggi ), signed bottom right: Filippo Hackert.

          5. Jakob Philipp Hackert began his training with his father Philipp Hackert, a portrait artist, and between..

          Biography

          Hackert studied first with his father, Philipp Hackert, then from 1755 with Blaise Nicolas Le Sueur at the Berlin Akademie.

          There he encountered, and copied, the landscapes of Dutch artists and of Claude Lorrain. The latter influence shows in two works exhibited in 1761, views of the Lake of Venus in the Berlin Zoological Garden (versions of 1764 in Stockholm, National Museum).

          These much admired paintings retain a rather rigid late Baroque style.

          Hackert's work found many prominent buyers, and he turned down an offer to become court painter in russia, though his brother William settled in russia in

          Hackert’s main interest in these early works was to arrive at a special understanding of a place through alternate views, with reverse directions of observation. This systematic documentation bears witness to his interest in the study of nature.

          In 1762 Hackert left Berlin for a study tour in northern Germany.

          He stopped in Stralsund and the nearby island of Rügen, where he was a guest of Adolph Friedrich von Olthoff, the Swedish councillor in Pomerania. The stimulus these travels provided is reflected in six landscapes in t