Andreas Achenbach
(1815–1910) tysk konstnär
Andreas Achenbach (1815–1910) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Andreas Achenbach belongs to the chapter ‘Realism’ in this site’s history of art.
Andreas Achenbach was born in Kassel and died in Düsseldorf. Andreas Achenbach trained at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. The teachers included Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. Andreas Achenbach worked in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Altenberg, and Kingdom of the Netherlands. Wikidata associates Andreas Achenbach with Romanticism and Düsseldorf school of painting. Andreas Achenbach became a member of Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and Künstlerhaus, society of fine artists of Austria. The awards include Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Knight of the Legion of Honour, and Knight of the Order of Leopold. The students included Oswald Achenbach, Apollinary Goravsky, Albert Flamm, and Hans Gude.
One of the best-known works is ‘Watermill in a Wooded Landscape with Rainy Weather’. The works belong mainly to the genre landscape painting. The catalogue has 102 works by Andreas Achenbach with free images. The dated works span the years 1831–1903. Works by Andreas Achenbach are held by several collections, among them Art collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Eremitaget, Museum Kunstpalast, and Bavarian State Painting Collections.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Domenico Induno, Alfred Elmore, Hans Jørgen Hammer, Carlo Bossoli, and Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux.