Jakob Wilhelm Roux

Who was Jakob Wilhelm Roux?

Jakob Wilhelm Roux 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 with. 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 re-married to Charlotte Mariana Wippermann. They had two sons together. He died in Heidelberg in 1830.