Oil painting -> List of Painters -> Andreas Achenbach

Early days: Andreas Achenbach (1815-1910) was a German landscape painter who was born at Kassel in the year 1915.His completed his art education  at the Dusseldorf academy under the guidance of Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow.His brother Oswald Achenbach was also a painter.

Career:

Andreas Achenbach painted mainly Rhineland villages, Norwegian landscapes and North Sea coast scenes, which was  immensely influenced by Dutch seventeenth-century painting.

In his early works he followed the pseudo-idealism of the German romantic school, but  later, on shifting  to Munich in 1835, the stronger power of L. Gurlitt turned his ability into new channels, and he eventually became the founder of the German realistic school.His works are displayed  at most of the important German galleries of modern art.