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ANDREAS ACHENBACH (1815— )

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 142 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDREAS

ACHENBACH (1815— )  , German landscape painter, was born at Cassel in 1815 . He began his
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art
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education in 1827 in
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Dusseldorf under W .
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Schadow and at the academy . In his early
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work he followed the pseudo-idealism of the German romantic school, but on removing to Munich in 1835, the stronger influence of L . 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
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personal temperament, he is a master of technique, and is historically important as a reformer . A number of his finest
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works are to be found at the Berlin
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National Gallery, the New Pinakothek in Munich, and the galleries at
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Dresden,
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Darmstadt; Cologne, Dusseldorf,
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Leipzig and
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Hamburg . His
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brother, OSWALD ACHENBACH (1827-1905), was born at Dusseldorf and received his art education from Andreas . His landscapes generally dwell on the rich and glowing effects of colour which drew him to the
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Bay of Naples and the neighbour-hood of Rome . He is represented at most of the important German galleries of
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modern art .

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