Gustav Jäger (painter)

In 1830 he moved to Munich, to work in the studio of Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.

There he was one of the artists commissioned to work on the Königsbau frescoes, in his case the Habsburgsaal and the Barbarossasaal, along with the smaller paintings in the Saal Karls d. Gr.

In 1847 he became the director of the Akademie in Leipzig, though in 1850 he took on the completion of one of Schnorr's major frescoes in the fourth Nibelungensaal in Munich.

Other murals by him are to be found in churches in Schönefeld and Klein-Pötzschau near Leipzig, as well as the Aula of the Teichmannschen Unterrichtsanstalt.

He also produced the reverse glass painting Christ as the Prince of Peace for the Christuskirche church at Rüdigsdorf, Kohren-Sahlis.