Johann Jakob Jung
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Johann Jakob Jung (12 September 1819,
Frankfurt am Main - 29 June 1844, Frankfurt am Main) was a German painter, specializing in religious subjects, and a member of the Nazarene movement
.
Life and work
At an early age, he began training as a
Catholic
nature. This had a decisive influence on the content of Jung's works.
The most familiar of these are oil paintings depicting
Kaisersaal in the Römer, a medieval building in Frankfurt. He also created a portrait of Saint Cecilia
in 1842.
That same year, he accepted a position as an art teacher at the Städel. His best known student there was Anton Burger.
In 2003, a set of his drawings of
Christie’s, in London and went for $245,584.[1]
References
Further reading
- "Jung, Jacob". In: Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19. Jahrhunderts. Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Vols.1/2, Boetticher’s Verlag, Dresden 1895, pg.600
- Heinrich Weizsäcker, Albert Dessoff: "Kunst und Künstler in Frankfurt am Main". Verlag Baer, Frankfurt/M. Vol.1: Das Frankfurter Kunstleben im 19. Jahrhundert in seinen grundlegenden Zügen geschildert. 1907, pg.162 (Online)
- "Jung, Jakob (1819)". In: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Vol.19: Ingouville–Kauffungen. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1926, pg.32
External links
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