Archive for posts tagged with ‘Jakob’


May 30 2011

The Destruction of the Turkish Fleet

Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian / Sea Scapes - 12 months ago - troycapc

The Destruction of the Turkish Fleet

This is a reproduction of “Die Zerstorung der turkischen Flotte in der Schlacht von Tschesme” of 1771 by Jakob Philipp Hackert.  The Battle of Chesma occurred on July 5, 6 and 7, 1770 near the island of Chios in the Aegean  Sea.  It was part of the Orlov Revolt in which Russian officers attempted to rally the Greeks of the Peloponnese to throw off Turkish oppression.   In the Battle of Chesma, the Turkish fleet was destroyed and the Russians were able to control the Aegean for some years.  This also sparked the rebellion against Turkish rule of non-Greek Christian peoples of the Balkans.  This work is 220 cm wide and 162.5 cm high and is in the Hermitage State Museum in St. Petersburg.

Reproduction for sale on Zazzle

 


May 25 2011

Fisher Family at Nighttime

Academician / German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 12 months ago - troycapc

Fisher Family at Nighttime

This is a reproduction of “The Fisher Family at Nighttime Campfire with Turbulent Sea” of 1778 by Jakob Philipp Hackert.  The artist was fifty-one years old when this was produced.  He was born in Brandenburg where he was trained by his artist father and uncle.  He studied at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin and became very proficient in painting landscapes and murals.  He relocated to Italy, mostly in Rome and Naples, in 1768 and in 1786 he entered the court of Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies in Naples.  He received commissions from the empress of Russia and the king of France.  He fled Naples in 1799 to Florence where he died in 1807.  This work is 87 cm wide and 64.5 cm high and is in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg, Germany.

Reproduction for sale on Zazzle

 


Mar 18 2011

Blick auf Salzburg, Jakob Roedler

German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

Blick auf Salzburg, Jakob Roedler, 1833

This is a reproduction of “Blick auf Salzburg”, or View of Salzburg, of 1833 by Jakob Roedler.  The Austiran Jakob Roedler produced this landscape masterpiece when he was twenty-four years old.  He died twenty-nine years later in Vienna.  The painting captures a view of the famous Festung Hohensalzburg which was built originally in 1077.  The city is famous as the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and was under the rule of the archbishop for 500 years ending in 1805.

Click here for more information

 


Mar 4 2011

The Shepherd Struck by Lightning by Jacob Becker, 1844

Academician / German / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc

The Shepherd Struck by Lightning by Jacob Becker, 1844

This is a reproduction of “The Shepherd Struck by Lightning” by Jacob Becker of 1844.  Jacob Becker was a German landscape artist who produced this masterpiece at the age of thirty-four.  He studied at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art for the eight years ending in 1841.  The next year he became a professor of genre and landscape painting at the Städel in Frankfurt.  He retained that position until his death in 1872 having moved his focus to subjects in the countryside often concentrating on the problems of the peasants.  He was very influential in the development of German art in the Nineteenth Century.  This masterpiece is in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt.

Click here for more information