Jakob Wilhelm Roux, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jakob Wilhelm Roux

German artist

Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1771

Place of Birth: Jena, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 22-Aug-1831

Profession: painter

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Jakob Wilhelm Roux

  • Jakob Wilhelm Roux (13 April 1771, Jena - 22 August 1830, Heidelberg) was a German painter and draughtsman. Roux was born to a Huguenot family.
  • He studied mathematics for a time at the University of Jena.
  • He later enrolled in the university of Christian Immanuel Oehme where his interests and classes turned to the arts.
  • It was while studying there that he met the surgeon Justus Christian Loder, with whom he collaborated.
  • Roux did a number of anatomical illustrations for Loder.
  • Roux later primarily painted portraits.
  • He was first married in 1801 to Pauline Johanna Heyligenstädt, and they had two daughters and a son together.
  • Two years after she died in 1823, Roux remarried to Charlotte Mariana Wippermann.
  • They had two sons together.
  • He died in Heidelberg in 1830.

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