Oil painting -> List of Painters -> Andreas Achenbach
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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.
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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.
Works of Andreas Achenbach:
Andreas Achenbach (September 29, 1815 - April 1, 1910) was a German landscape painter.
Born at Cassel, he began his art education in 1827 in Düsseldorf under Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow at the Düsseldorf Academy of Painting. In his early work he followed the pseudo-idealism of the German romantic school, but on removing to Munich in 1835, the stronger influence of Louis Gurlitt turned his talent into new channels, and he became the founder of the German realistic school. Although his landscapes evince too much of his aim at picture-making and lack personal temperament, he is a master of technique, and is historically important as a reformer.
A number of his finest works are to be found at the Berlin National Gallery, the New Pinakothek in Munich, and the galleries at Dresden, Darmstadt, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Leipzig and Hamburg.
He died in Düsseldorf.
His brother, Oswald Achenbach (1827-1905), was also a painter.