Jakob Philipp Hackert
At one time, a fashionable and famous landscape painter, and after his death - forgotten by everyone, the German artist Jakob Philipp Hackert (1737 - 1807) was born in Germany, lived and worked in Scandinavia, France, Italy and even in Russia. Had high-ranking admirers among European and Russian aristocrats. The artist was commissioned by paintings by noble and rich people, among whom were Prince Yusupov, the heir to the Russian throne Pavel Petrovich and even the almighty Empress Catherine II herself. In Russia, a new interest in Hackert's work was aroused by the exhibition, which was successfully held in the State Hermitage Museum in 1998.
