Jakob Joseph Zelger
Born in 1812.
Died in 1885.
Jakob Joseph Zelger, whose dates SIKART gives as 1812–1885, is presented by this source as a landscape painter. The Wikidata entry notes several spelling variants (Joseph / Josef, J. J., Jakob / Jacob) that appear in the secondary documentation.
Wikidata describes the person as a “Swiss painter” and gives the same years of life (1812–1885).
According to SIKART, he was a pupil of François Diday in Geneva. The same source states that he developed a style that enabled him to become known beyond the borders of Switzerland, and reports that in 1868 he received commissions from Queen Victoria of England.
The surviving or documented works are described by SIKART as depicting mainly lake and alpine landscapes. SIKART situates these works within an artistic context in which nature was a major source of inspiration for artists of the period.
For bibliographic reference, the SIKART entry is identified by the number 4023333, and a corresponding entry appears on Wikidata.
