The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Achenbach, Andreas

ACHENBACH, Andreas, ä′ʜen-bäʜ, German landscape and marine painter: b. Cassel, 1815; d. 1910. He studied under the eminent Schadow at Düsseldorf, and became one of the leading artists of that school. He painted in Holland, along the Rhine, and in Norway, producing landscapes of rich coloring and intense realism. He was made R. A. in Berlin, and knight of the Legion of Honor in France; and took a first medal in Paris, 1855. Private galleries in the United States have many of his finest works.

His younger brother Oswald, b. Düsseldorf, 1827: d. 1 Feb. 1905, was also a landscape artist, esteemed of more ideal quality than Andreas; and his pictures of Switzerland, Italy etc., were largely bought in the United States. Consult Achenbach, C. ‘Andreas Achenbach in Kunst und Leben’ (1912).