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Jakob Gauermann (1773, Oeffingen – 1843, Miesenbach) was a German landscape and

genre painter Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ...

and engraver born in Oeffingen, near Stuttgart.

Life

He at first worked as a stonemason at

Hohenheim Hohenheim () is one of 18 outer quarters of the city of Stuttgart in the borough of Plieningen that sits on the Filder in central Baden-Württemberg. It was founded in 1782. Geography Hohenheim sits on the Filder, a large and fertile plateau i ...

. His strong inclination for drawing brought him to the knowledge of Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, who enabled him to receive an education in art at the

Karlsschule Stuttgart Hohe Karlsschule (''Karl's High School'') was the strict military academy founded by Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg in Stuttgart, Germany. It was first founded in 1770 as a military orphanage, but then converted into a military academy in 1773 ...

. After this he travelled for six years in Switzerland. In 1798 he went to

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. He visited

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and Styria, where he made sketches, which he worked up into water-colour drawings and oil pictures. He also executed several etchings of landscapes. Gauermann died in Vienna in 1843 and was buried in Hundsturmer Cemetery. His grave has since been moved.

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1773 births 1843 deaths People from Fellbach German male painters 18th-century German painters 18th-century German male artists 19th-century German painters German engravers German emigrants to Austria Austrian male painters 19th-century Austrian painters 19th-century German male artists Austrian engravers {{printmaker-stub

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