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The Shepherd Struck by Lightning by Jacob Becker, 1844

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

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.

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