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Andreas Achenbach

1815 - 1910

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andreas Achenbach is the 545th most popular painter (up from 635th in 2019), the 1,523rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,705th in 2019) and the 54th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Andreas Achenbach ranks 545 out of 2,023. Before him are Joachim von Sandrart, Bernard Buffet, Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Giuseppe Crespi, Françoise Gilot, and Clara Peeters. After him are Émile Friant, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Remedios Varo, and Paloma Picasso.

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Among people born in 1815, Andreas Achenbach ranks 20. Before him are Julia Margaret Cameron, Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Lorenz von Stein, Richard Henry Dana Jr., Ernest Meissonier, and Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha. After him are Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Giuseppina Strepponi, Constantin von Tischendorf, Alexander von Middendorff, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and George Meade. Among people deceased in 1910, Andreas Achenbach ranks 38. Before him are Mikhail Vrubel, Arkhip Kuindzhi, Karl Lueger, Auguste Charlois, John La Farge, and Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev. After him are Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Alençon, Eliza Orzeszkowa, Charles Rolls, Henri-Edmond Cross, Friedrich Kohlrausch, and Osman Hamdi Bey.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Andreas Achenbach ranks 1,523 out of 7,253. Before him are Charles II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1741), Hermine Reuss of Greiz (1887), Carl Stumpf (1848), Günther Blumentritt (1892), Herta Bothe (1921), and George Müller (1805). After him are Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (1346), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin (1673), Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Karl Albrecht (1920), and Prince Ernst August of Hanover (1954).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Andreas Achenbach ranks 54. Before him are Lucian Freud (1922), Heinrich Füger (1751), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751), and Joachim von Sandrart (1606). After him are Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884), Anton von Werner (1843), Peter von Cornelius (1784), Wolf Vostell (1932), Max Pechstein (1881), and Oswald Achenbach (1827).

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