Great Painters Art Galleries: Andreas Achenbach

Monday, July 25, 2011

Andreas Achenbach Online Art Gallery

Andreas Achenbach Biography

Andreas Achenbach (September 29, 1815 – April 1, 1910) was a German landscape painter.

Born at Kassel, he began his art education in 1827 in Düsseldorf under Friedrich Wilhelm 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 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. He received a medal of the first class in Paris 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, Darmstadt, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Leipzig and Hamburg. Many of his paintings are in galleries in the United States.

He died in Düsseldorf.

His brother, Oswald Achenbach (1827–1905), was also a painter.

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Great Painters Art Galleries

Monday, July 25, 2011

Andreas Achenbach Art: The Old Academy in Dusseldorf

Andreas Achenbach Art: Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily

Andreas Achenbach Online Art Gallery: Storm at Dutch Coast

Andreas Achenbach Art Gallery: Return To Harbour In Rough Seas

Andreas Achenbach Art: Norwegian Coast by Moonlight

Andreas Achenbach Art: Morning In The Potinian Marches

Andreas Achenbach Art Gallery: Logging Camp

Andreas Achenbach Art: Landscape with Rune Stone

Andreas Achenbach Art: Landscape with a Stream

Andreas Achenbach Art: Fishing Along The Shore

Andreas Achenbach Art: Dutch Landscape with Woman and Cow

Andreas Achenbach Art: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Andreas Achenbach Art: Clearing Up Coast of Sicily

Andreas Achenbach Art: Bringing in the Catch

Andreas Achenbach Art: Bank of the Frozen Over Sea (Winter-Landscape)

Andreas Achenbach Art: A Fishing Boat On The Beach

Andreas Achenbach Art: A Fishing Boat Caught In A Squall Off A Jetty (1865)

Andreas Achenbach