Jakob Alt (1789 – 1872) Jakob Alt was a German painter and lithographer born in Frankfurt am Main on September 27, 1789. He received his early artistic education in Frankfurt before moving to Vienna, where he entered the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, becoming noted as a landscape painter. Throughout his career, Alt made various journeys throughout Austria and Italy, painting views of the Danube and the city of Vienna. His artistic vision was profoundly shaped by the Romantic movement, which emphasized emotion and imagination alongside observation of nature—a characteristic that would p…