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.

 

Andreas Achenbach

 

Personal Details:

Name

Andreas Achenbach

Place of birth

Kassel, Germany

Date of Birth

September 29, 1815

Date of Death

April 1, 1910

Nationality

German

Art Education

Dusseldorf Academy of Painting,Germany

Field

Painting

Popular Paintings

Watermill in Westphalia,Return to Harbour in Rough Seas,Bring in the Catch

 

 

 

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.

Works of  Andreas Achenbach:

  
Watermill in Westphalia      Return to Harbour in Rough Seas       Bring in the Catch      

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.