Andreas Achenbach was a German

Germany

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 landscape painter.

Born at Kassel

Kassel

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, he began his art education in 1827 in Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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 under Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow

Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow was a German Romantic painter.-Biography:He was born in Berlin and was the second son of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow....

 at the Düsseldorf Academy of Painting. He studied at St Petersburg and travelled in Italy, Holland and Scandinavia. In his early work he followed the pseudo-idealism of the German romantic school, but on removing to Munich

Munich

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 in 1835, the stronger influence of Louis Gurlitt

Louis Gurlitt

Ludwig Heinrich Theodor Gurlitt , also called Louis Gurlitt, was a Danish-German painter of landscapes. His brother was the composer Cornelius Gurlitt, and his son was the architect and art historian also called Cornelius 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. He received a medal of the first class in Paris

Paris

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 in 1855, and was named a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary says of him that "he was regarded as the father of 19th century German landscape painting."

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

Dresden

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, Darmstadt

Darmstadt

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, Cologne

Cologne

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, Düsseldorf, Leipzig

Leipzig

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 and Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

. Many of his paintings are in galleries in the United States

United States

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He died in Düsseldorf.

His brother, Oswald Achenbach

Oswald Achenbach

Oswald Achenbach was a German landscape painter.Born in Düsseldorf, he received his art education from his brother, Andreas Achenbach. His landscapes generally dwell on the rich and glowing effects of color which drew him to the Bay of Naples and the neighborhood of Rome. He also painted in the...

(1827–1905), was also a painter.

Works (selected)

• Fishing Along the Shore (1900)
• Return To Harbour In Rough Seas (1893)
• Bring in the Catch (1852)
• Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (1850)

External links

• Art by Achenbach (museumsyndicate.com)
• Andreas Achenbach (Works in art museums and image archives worldwide - artcyclopedia.com).
• Andreas Achenbach Paitings Gallery (Public Domain Paintings - www.art.onilm.com)