Andreas Achenbach
Andreas Achenbach ( born September 29, 1815 in Kassel, † April 1st, 1910 in Dusseldorf ) was a German landscape painter of the Romantic period. It is attributed to the Düsseldorf school of painting.
Theme of his landscape paintings were mainly seascapes. His brother, Oswald Achenbach, however, focused on the representation of the Italian countryside. The two brothers were therefore called " landscape painting A and O " also jokingly referred to as the.
- 3.1 Illustrations (selection)
Life
Family
Andreas was born the son of Hermann and Christine Achenbach, born Zilch, in Kassel. Little did suggest that this family of two would emerge for the important 19th century painter. Hermann Achenbach worked in a number of different professions. He worked as a beer and vinegar-maker, had in the meantime an inn in Dusseldorf and worked as an accountant later.
Art education
Andreas Achenbach received drawing lessons as a child and began his art education in 1827, so the age of twelve, at the Dusseldorf Art Academy under Wilhelm von Schadow, Heinrich Christoph Kolbe and Carl Friedrich Schaffer. On an exhibition of " Art Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia ," the Schadow had co-founded in 1829, the first fourteen years of Achenbach scored his first major success when he was not only about the exhibiting artists but also one of his paintings was sold. The first sale closed very quickly to another. In the old Academy in Dusseldorf Achenbach chose the view from a window of the home of his parents in the house Castle Square 152 The choice of this sober subjects emphasizes the autonomy of the artist, because the description of the "reality" was in the academy as inartistic. Only a well-established artist's personality could dare to make a " picture unworthy " theme the subject of a painting.
1832 and 1833 he undertook with his father, an extended study trip to Rotterdam, among other things, Scheveningen, Amsterdam and Riga. The trip gave him the opportunity to intensively deal with the Dutch and Flemish landscape painting. Characteristic of him were the paintings by Jacob Isaacksz. van Ruisdael and Allart van Everdingen. From the time in this trip especially seascapes dominated his work in which he grappled with the artistic experience of the sea and the coast.
His later teachers also counted Johann Wilhelm Schirmer. Achenbach's early work was influenced by the pseudo - idealism of the German Romantics, but after resuming moved to Munich in 1835 Louis Gurlitt gave the young talent a decisive turn, Achenbach and became the founder of the German Realism. Rise to the departure of the Dusseldorf Art Academy were increasingly there conflicts within this academy of art education. 1885 Andreas Achenbach honorary citizen of Dusseldorf. In addition, he has already been included on 24 January 1881 in the Prussian Order Pour le Merite for Arts and Science.
He belonged to the preferred selection of contemporary artists who proposed the " Komite for collecting and assessing Stollwerck images " the Cologne Chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck to commission for drafts.
Travels
Like his brother, Oswald Achenbach Andreas has done during his life numerous study trips, which he used to nature studies especially. In 1835 he undertook a major trip to Denmark, Norway and Sweden. After Norway, he returned in 1839 back again. Among his destinations were in 1836, however, the Bavarian Alps and the Tyrol. From 1843 to 1845 he lived in Italy, especially in the Campagna, and Capri. In 1846 he returned to Dusseldorf, where he was from 1847 a member of numerous clubs that belonged to the artistic life of the city, including the artist club paintbox. So it is said in 1856 in a Düsseldorf journal:
" Both brothers are Achenbach [ ... ] notably the animating principle of the society [ of the paintbox ]; they are cheerful, funny and [ ... ] enjoy an enviable independence. "
The influence Achenbach as a teacher
Although his landscapes make the effort to make a picture see, he is a master of the art and a historically significant reformer. Because of its intense painting activity he has trained very little student throughout his life. These include his twelve- years younger brother Oswald Achenbach and Albert Flamm. It is controversial how intense was the art training in particular his younger brother. Busy is merely that he this in letters recommendations on picture composition and painting techniques were in the 1840s and thus indirectly made him familiar with the concept of art Schirmer.
Selections
- "The Old Academy in Dusseldorf ", 1831, Dusseldorf, Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf
- "Father Hermann Achenbach ," 1834, first introduced in 2006, private collection
- "Mother Christine Achenbach born Zilch ", in 1834, first introduced in 2006, private collection
- " Hardanger Fjord" 1835 Gallery, Düsseldorf
- " Trollhätte cases " in 1836, Greifswald, Pomeranian State Museum
- " Sea Storm ", 1836, Munich, Neue Pinakothek
- " A storm at sea on the Norwegian coast ", 1837, Städel Museum, Frankfurt
- " Ebb ", 1837, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover
- " Norwegian Landscape ", 1838, Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle
- " Demise of the steamboat ' The President ' " 1838, Private Collection, on loan to the museum kunst palace Dusseldorf
- "Landscape with the Church of Schwarzrheindorf ", 1839, Dortmund, Museum of Art and Cultural History
- "On the sea beach ", 1852, Freiburg im Breisgau, Augustiner Museum
- " Westfälische Landschaft ", 1863, Greifswald, Pomeranian State Museum
- " Dutch landscape ", 1865, Stuttgart, Stuttgart State Gallery
- " Dutch Harbor " 1866 Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin
- " Mountain Landscape ", 1866, Cologne, Wallraf -Richartz Museum
- " In the port of Ostend ", 1866, Berlin, National Gallery
- " Westfälische Watermill ", 1869, Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts
- " Lighthouse at Ostend " 1887
- " Trawler " 1896 Nordsee Museum
- " Amsterdam canal "? Dresden?
Illustrations (selection)
Digitized editions of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
- In: Watercolors Düsseldorf artists: the art-loving ladies dedicated. Arnz, Dusseldorf 1861. Digitized edition
- In: Düsseldorf Songs Album: 6 songs with piano accompaniment. Arnz, Dusseldorf 1851. Digitized edition
- In: Tegnér, Esaias. Frithiofsage. Translated by Julius Minding. Cornelius, Berlin ( and others) in 1842. Digitized edition
- In: Endrulat, Bernhard: A Kaiserfest in " paint box " to Dusseldorf: and 11 executed in woodcut original drawings. Voss, Dusseldorf 1878. Digitized edition
- In: Reinic, Robert. Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. 1836-1852. Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. Schulgen - Bettendorff, Dusseldorf 1836, proof. digitized edition
- Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. Schulgen - Bettendorff, Dusseldorf 1838, colored wallets output. digitized edition
- Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. Schulgen - Bettendorff, Dusseldorf 1838. Digitized edition
- Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. Buddeus, Dusseldorf 1839-1846. Digitized edition
- Songs of a painter with marginal drawings of his friends. Vogel, Leipzig about 1852. Digitized edition