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Biography
Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker. Born as Rudolf Alt, he could call himself von Alt and bear the title of a Ritter after he gained nobility in 1889.
Rudolf von alt biography of michael
He was the son of the famous lithographer Jakob Alt.
Von Alt was perhaps the most productive and accomplished watercolour painter in German-speaking Europe in the 19th century. On his frequent travels he produced local views, landscapes and interiors, often commissioned by aristocratic patrons.
He studied with his father, Jakob Alt (1789-1872), a landscape and watercolour painter and one of the first to use the new technique of lithography. From the age of six Rudolf accompanied him on study trips, and, together with Alt's other children, he coloured his father's drawings.
During his student days at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna (1825-32), Rudolf joined his father on further journeys and collaborated in his studio.
In 1832 he won a prize, which simultaneously freed him from military service an