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Andreas Achenbach
Andreas Achenbach

Andreas Achenbach

German, 1815-1910
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Andreas Achenbach was a German landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Düsseldorf School. His brother, Oswald, was also a well known landscape painter. Together, based on their initials, they were known as the "Alpha and Omega" of landscape painters.

His father, Hermann,(1783–1849) was a merchant by trade, but worked at a number of professions. In 1816, he became the manager of a metal factory in Mannheim. Two years later, they moved to St.Petersburg, where his father wanted to set up a factory with money that his mother had received as an inheritance. It was here that Andreas took his first drawing lessons. The project failed and they returned to Rhine Province in 1823. Soon, his father had established a brewery in Düsseldorf, with an inn that was frequented by the local art community.

There, in 1827, he began his artistic education in earnest, attending the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and Heinrich Christoph Kolbe. In 1831, aged only sixteen, he participated in a local exhibition and sold one painting. The following year, he studied landscape painting with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer.

He then took a study trip to the Netherlands and had his first real success in 1836, at an exhibition in Cologne, where one of his paintings was purchased by the Governor of Rhine Province, Prince Frederick. After a tour of Bavaria and Tyrolia, he settled in Frankfurt and, with the assistance of Alfred Rethel, opened a studio at the Städelsche Kunstinstitut. He travelled continuously, however, often in the company of his brother, throughout Scandinavia and Italy. They both became regular visitors to Ostend. He returned home on family business in 1846.

That year, he took over the brewery and inn. His father, although technically retired, became a free-lance accountant. In 1848, he married Marie Louise Hubertine Catharine Lichtschlag (1827–1889), known as Luise. They had five children. Their second child, Maximilian, became an opera singer, known under the name Max Alvary.

He was one of the founding members of an art association known as "Malkasten [de]" (The Paint Box) and helped them acquire the former estate of the Jacobi family in Pempelfort, which was turned into the "Malkastenpark [de]"; now a National Monument. He took very few students other than his brother, notably Albert Flamm, Marcus Larson, Apollinary Goravsky and William Stanley Haseltine.

He received many honors throughout his life including the Order of leopold (1848), Order of Saint Stanislaus (1861) and the Order of St. Olav (1878). He became an honorary member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1853 and a member of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in 1862. In 1885, he was named an honorary citizen of Düsseldorf.

When he died, he was a given a grand viewing and ceremony at the Malkasten house. He was buried in a magnificent tomb with a sculpture by Karl Janssen. There is a street, the "Achenbachweg" named after him in Holsterhausen [de].

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Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily

Sunset after a Storm on the Coast of Sicily (1853)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Holländischer Hafen bei Sturm

Holländischer Hafen bei Sturm (1890)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Sturm am Hafen

Sturm am Hafen (1881)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Motif from Bohuslän, Sweden

Motif from Bohuslän, Sweden (1835)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Fischerboot auf stürmischer See

Fischerboot auf stürmischer See (1895)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Mühle am Gebirgsbach

Mühle am Gebirgsbach (1861)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Fischerboot in Seenot

Fischerboot in Seenot (1893)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Jäger in Landschaft

Jäger in Landschaft (1854)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Norwegische Berglandschaft

Norwegische Berglandschaft

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
View of Neuss

View of Neuss (1865)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Snowy Forest

Snowy Forest (1835)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
At the Baltic coast

At the Baltic coast (1836)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Return at full moon

Return at full moon (1884)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
Landscape
Mountainous Landscape

Mountainous Landscape (1901)

Andreas Achenbach (German, 1815-1910)
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