J. Metzler was a German artist of the Düsseldorf school. His works were made between the last decades of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century and were very popular at that time. He was specialised in

Landscape art Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction in painting of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, rivers, trees, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coh ...

and painted mostly the Rhine valleys (especially the

Lower Rhine Lower Rhine (, ; kilometres 660 to 1,033 of the Rhine) is the section of the Rhine between Bonn in Germany and the North Sea at Hook of Holland in the Netherlands, including the '' Nederrijn'' () within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta; alternat ...

near Düsseldorf) but also landscapes everywhere in Germany. Until today the identity of this famous painter of the past remains unknown; one proposed identity is the landscape painter .

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19th-century German painters German male painters {{Germany-painter-stub