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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 29 September 1815
- Died
- 1 April 1910
- Place of birth
- Kassel
- Place of death
- Düsseldorf
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Andreas
- Family name
- Achenbach
- Father
- Hermann Achenbach
- Mother
- Christine Zilch
- Child
- Max Alvary
- Sibling
- Oswald Achenbach
- Movement
- Romanticism, Düsseldorf school of painting
- Genre
- landscape painting
- Occupation
- painter, printmaker, draftsperson, illustrator, watercolorist, etcher, lithographer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Awards
- Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order, Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, Knight of the Legion of Honour, Knight of the Order of Leopold
- artist files at
- Frick Art Research Library
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Paintings of the nineteenth century: contribution to the history of art, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, The Encyclopedia Americana, New International Encyclopedia
- different from
- Andreas Achenbach
- educated at
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
- has works in the collection
- Städel Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Nationalmuseum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Mu.ZEE - Kunstmuseum aan Zee, Amsterdam Museum, Centraal Museum, Dordrechts Museum, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Landesmuseum Hannover, LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- name in native language
- Andreas Achenbach
- student of
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer
Connected on Wikidata
Creator of
- Rotslandschap met waterval in Noorwegen
- Dutch landscape
- Stormy day
- Coastal Landscape
- The waterfalls of Trollhättan in Sweden
- Farewell to the Fleet
- The Entrance to the Harbour at Hellevoetsluys
- Norwegian Coast by Moonlight
- Norwegian landscape / Scandinavian Landscape
- Mountain landscape with mill
- Off Ostend
- View of Amsterdam at night
Subject of
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