Jakob Placidus old mother
Jakob Placidus Altmutter (born July 25, 1780 in Innsbruck , Tyrol , † November 22, 1820 in Schwaz ) was an Austrian painter.
Jakob Placidus old mother was a son of Franz old mother . He first learned from his father, from 1801 to 1803 from Francesco Casanova at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Afterwards he worked again in his father's workshop, mainly making pencil, pen and ink drawings, but hardly any oil paintings. Above all, he created genre pictures of Tyrolean folk life and the Tyrolean uprising of 1809 and is considered the "father of Alpine morality". He helped his father with some frescoes, a. a. 1815 with the wall paintings in the Innsbruck Hofburg . Alt Mutter also designed playing cards for the "Tiroler Tarock " published in 1815 with motifs from Tyrolean history, especially the struggle for freedom. Many of his drawings are kept in the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum.
literature
- Heinz von Mackowitz: old mother, Jakob Placidus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 227 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Old mother, Placidus Jakob. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 17.
- Entry on Jakob Placidus Altmutter in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
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Notes and individual references
- ↑ according to some sources 1819
- ^ Farmer's market in St. Gertraudi near Brixlegg , Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum
- ↑ Claudia Sporer-Heis: Put at stake. Toys in the historical collections of the Ferdinandeum. In: Ferdinandea, Die Zeitung des Verein Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, No. 20, May-July 2012, p. 10 ( PDF; 1.6 MB )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Old mother, Jakob Placidus |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1780 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Innsbruck , Tyrol |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 1820 |
| Place of death | black |