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Andreas Achenbach (1815 - 1910)
At the age of fourteen Andreas Achenbach had already been accepted as a student at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and a year later sold his first painting. Whereas most of the landscape painters of the Düsseldorf school oriented themselves towards Italy, Achenbach looked more to Dutch painting for inspiration, which he had encountered during a trip through the Netherlands in 1832/33.
Jakob Ruisdael served as a great role model in Achenbach¿s conception of landscape, which for the most part is saturated with a northern soberness. Marine pieces and landscapes with turbulent skies belong to his more favored motifs, which highlights the proximity of his work to his teacher Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. |
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