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Jakob Wilhelm Mechau BIOGRAPHY
1745 - 1808. Known for: Painting.
Mechau, who had received extensive training in Leipzig, Berlin, and Dresden, traveled to Italy in 1776 on a scholarship from the Elector of Saxony, where he devoted himself definitively to landscape... Read full biography
Mechau, who had received extensive training in Leipzig, Berlin, and Dresden, traveled to Italy in 1776 on a scholarship from the Elector of Saxony, where he devoted himself definitively to landscape painting. This view of the Benedictine abbey, picturesquely situated among rocks, is one of the few... Read full biography
Mechau, who had received extensive training in Leipzig, Berlin, and Dresden, traveled to Italy in 1776 on a scholarship from the Elector of Saxony, where he devoted himself definitively to landscape painting. This view of the Benedictine abbey, picturesquely situated among rocks, is one of the few surviving canvases from his Italian journey.
Mechau, who had received extensive training in Leipzig, Berlin, and Dresden, traveled to Italy in 1776 on a scholarship from the Elector of Saxony, where he devoted himself definitively to landscape painting. This view of the Benedictine abbey, picturesquely situated among rocks, is one of the few surviving canvases from his Italian journey.
Mechau, who had received extensive training in Leipzig, Berlin, and Dresden, traveled to Italy in 1776 on a scholarship from the Elector of Saxony, where he devoted himself definitively to landscape painting. This view of the Benedictine abbey, picturesquely situated among rocks, is one of the few surviving canvases from his Italian journey.
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Mechau, who had received extensive training in Leipzig, Berlin, and Dresden, traveled to Italy in 1776 on a scholarship from the Elector of Saxony, where he devoted himself definitively to landscape painting. This view of the Benedictine abbey, picturesquely situated among rocks, is one of the few surviving canvases from his Italian journey.