Jan Jahn
Illustration — Portrait of a Lady with a Bonnet (1785) Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn (4 June 1739 – 18 August 1802, both in Prague) was a painter and art historian from Bohemia. Jahn studied painting from an early age, under his father until 1758 and later under established painters Jan Ferdinand Schor and František Xaver Palko. From 1761 he studied art at the Academy in Vienna.
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Jan Jahn
Jan Jakub Quirin Jahn (1739-1802) · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Born
- 1739 · Prague.
- Died
- 1802 · Prague.
- Occupation
- art historian · painter · collector · teacher · art theorist
- Fields
- painting · history · art theory
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Born at Prague in 1739, died in Prague in 1802.
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Jan Jahn was an art historian and painter, born on 4 June 1739 in Prag and died on 18 July 1802 in Prag. Both events are recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
The field of work recorded is painting, history and art theory. Work by Jan Jahn is recorded in the collections of National Gallery Prague.
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