Andreas Achenbach

Born in 1815, Andreas Achenbach's early life was marked by his father's varied professions, including a brief family move to Saint Petersburg where he had his first drawing lessons. The family eventually settled in Düsseldorf, where Achenbach began his formal artistic education at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1827. He studied under notable figures like Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow and Heinrich Christoph Kolbe, and by age sixteen, he was already participating in local exhibit…