1737-1807 DE
Jacob Philipp Hackert (15 September 1737 – 28 April 1807) was a landscape painter from Brandenburg, who did most of his work in Italy.Hackert was born in 1737 in Prenzlau in the Margraviate of Brandenburg (now in Germany). He trained with his father Philipp (a portraitist and painter of animals) and his uncle, before going to the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 1758. Later he traveled to Swedish Pomerania and Stockholm, where he painted murals.When Goethe visited Naples in 1786, he and Hackert became friends.Goethe wrote the first biography of Hackert in 1811.