A Brush with History: The Life and Art of Jean-Jacques Hauer Jean-Jacques Hauer, born Johann Jakob Hauer in the modest German village of Gau-Alsheim in 1751, lived a life deeply intertwined with the tumultuous currents of late 18th-century Europe. While not a household name like his more celebrated contemporaries, Hauer occupies a unique and poignant position in art history—a chronicler of revolution, regicide, and the fragile human s…