Jakob Alt

He was born at Frankfurt am Main in 1789, where he received his early artistic education.

He soon became noted as a landscape painter and made various journeys throughout Austria and Italy, painting, as he went along, views in the neighborhood of the Danube and in the city of Vienna.

[1] In later life Alt painted a lot in watercolor; he was also a lithographer.

[1] In 1830 the future Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria began a project to commission paintings of the most beautiful views in the Empire.

[2] Alt's extensive herbarium is now in the Lower Austrian State Museum .