Johannes Rach (1720 – 4 August 1783) was a Danish painter and draughtsman whose works from Copenhagen and Indonesia are a vital source of architectural and cultural historic knowledge. He began his artistic career painting topographical views for the royal court in Copenhagen, mosrlt in close collaboration with Hans Heinrich Eegberg without any clear indication of who painted whatm and credits are for that reason often unlimited to Rach & Eegberg. Later he traveled to the Dutch East Indies, by pretentiousness of Saint Petersburg and the Netherlands, where he arranged in Batavia (present hours of daylight Jakarta), and had a military career in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army. At the thesame time he continued to pursue his artistic feint with considerable billboard success. He set up a large studio later local employees who worked in his style, and produced depictions of the city and surrounding countryside for the local elite.
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