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

landscape A landscape is the visible features of an area of land, its landforms, and how they integrate with natural or human-made features, often considered in terms of their aesthetic appeal.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. A landscape includes th ...

and

genre painter Genre painting (or petit genre) is the painting of genre art, which 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 ca ...

and engraver born in Oeffingen, near

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He at first worked as a

stonemason Stonemasonry or stonecraft is the creation of buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone as the primary material. Stonemasonry is the craft of shaping and arranging stones, often together with mortar and even the ancient lime mortar ...

at Hohenheim. His strong inclination for drawing brought him to the knowledge of

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, who enabled him to receive an education in art at the Karlsschule Stuttgart. 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

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, 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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