Andreas Achenbach
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Andreas Achenbach (29 September 1815 – 1 April 1910) was a German landscape and seascape painter in the Romantic style. He is considered to be one of the founders of the Düsseldorf School.Template:Citation needed 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.<ref name="Magdanz 2020">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="buchfreund.de">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
BiographyEdit
Achenbach's father Hermann (1783–1849) was a merchant by trade but worked a number of professions. In 1816, he became the manager of a metal factory in Mannheim. Two years later, Achenbach's family moved to Saint Petersburg where his father wanted to set up a factory with the money that his mother had received as an inheritance. It was here that he 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
There, in 1827, Achenbach 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.<ref>Rudolf Theilmann: Die Schülerlisten der Landschafterklassen von Schirmer bis Dücker. In: Wend von Kalnein: Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1979, Template:ISBN, pg.144</ref>
Die Katholische Welt (1896)
He then took a study trip to the Netherlands and achieved 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 throughout Scandinavia and Italy, often in the company of his brother, and they both became regular visitors to Ostend. He returned home for the family business in 1846.
That year, he took over the brewery and inn. His father, although technically retired, became a free-lance accountant.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1848, he married Marie Louise Hubertine Catharine Lichtschlag (1827–1889), also known as Luise.<ref>Grabstein Nordfriedhof Düsseldorf: Luise Achenbach, geborene Lichtschlag (* 1. Mai 1827; † 31. Dezember 1889),</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> They had five children. Their second child, Maximilian, became an opera singer, known under the name Max Alvary.
Achenbach was one of the founding members of an art association known as "Malkasten" (The Paint Box), and helped them acquire the former estate of the Jacobi family in Pempelfort, which was turned into the "Malkastenpark"; now a National Monument. He took very few students other than his brother, notably Albert Flamm, Marcus Larson, Apollinary Goravsky and William Stanley Haseltine.Template:Citation needed
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.<ref>Detlef Lorenz: Reklamekunst um 1900. Künstlerlexikon für Sammelbilder. Reimer, 2000.</ref>
When he died, he was a given a grand viewing and ceremony at 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 Template:Ill.<ref>Erwin Dickhoff: Familien, Bürger und Personen im Spiegel Essener Straßennamen. Stadt Essen, Essen 1968, pg.9.</ref>
Selected paintingsEdit
- Andreas Achenbach - Clearing Up—Coast of Sicily - Walters 37116.jpg
Clearing Up—Coast of Sicily, 1847, The Walters Art Museum
- Andreas Achenbach Wildbach.jpg
Wildbach
- Andreas Achenbach - Küstenlandschaft mit Stadtansicht.jpg
Küstenlandschaft mit Stadtansicht, 1875
- Achenbach, Andreas - Westfälische Wassermühle.jpg
Watermill in Westphalia, 1863
- MK 17354 Andreas Achenbach-Ein Seesturm an der norwegischen Küste.jpg
Storm on the sea at the Norwegian coast, 1837, Städel Museum
- Retrieving the stern boat, by Andreas Achenbach.jpg
Retrieving the stern boat, 1842
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Bettina Baumgärtel, Wolfgang Peiffer, Matthias Winzen (each publishers): Andreas Achenbach. Revolutionär und Malerfürst. Athena-Verlag, Oberhausen 2016, Template:ISBN.
- Wolfgang Peiffer: Andreas Achenbach – Das druckgraphische Werk. Athena-Verlag, Oberhausen 2014, Template:ISBN.
- Wolfgang Peiffer: Andreas Achenbach – Italienreise. Baden-Baden 2009, Template:ISBN.
- Martina Sitt (Ed.): Andreas und Oswald Achenbach. "Das A und O der Landschaft". Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf exhibition catalog, Hamburg and Linz 1997/98. Wienand, Cologne 1997, Template:ISBN.
- Template:NDB
External linksEdit
Template:Düsseldorf school of painting Template:Authority control