Andreas Achenbach: Clearing Up, Coast of Sicily
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Artist |
Andreas Achenbach
(1815–1910) |
![Andreas Achenbach](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Heinrich_von_Angeli_Professor_Andreas_Achenbach.jpg/120px-Heinrich_von_Angeli_Professor_Andreas_Achenbach.jpg) |
Description |
German painter, printmaker, drawer, illustrator and visual artist |
Date of birth/death |
29 September 1815 ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
1 April 1910 ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Location of birth/death |
Kassel |
Düsseldorf |
Work location |
Düsseldorf (1823–1836), Altenberg (Hohenahr) (1831), Netherlands (1832), Saint Petersburg (1832), Gothenburg (1835), Copenhagen (1835), Lübeck (1835), Scheveningen (September 1935–1835), Tyrol (1836), Munich (1836–1837), Frankfurt (1837–1839), United Kingdom (1838, 1857), Paris (1838), Norway (1839), Düsseldorf, Rome (1843–1845), Italy (1850–1851, 1873), Capri (between 1843 and 1845 date QS:P,+1843-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1843-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1845-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Sicily (between 1843 and 1845 date QS:P,+1843-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1843-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1845-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 ), Düsseldorf (1846–1 April 1910), Genoa (1850), Amsterdam (1848, 3 September 1862, 13 September 1879), The Hague (1848), Hellevoetsluis (1850), Katwijk aan Zee (1862), Scheveningen (9 September 1862), The Hague (1862), Vlissingen (circa 1873 date QS:P,+1873-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 ), Enkhuizen (circa 1874 date QS:P,+1874-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 ), Rotterdam (27 March 1887) |
Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q76416 |
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Title |
Clearing Up, Coast of Sicily label QS:Len,"Clearing Up, Coast of Sicily"
label QS:Lde,"Es klart auf, Küste von Sizilien"
label QS:Lnl,"Opklaring, kust van Sicilië" |
Object type |
painting ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Description |
English: Beginning in the 1820s, the academy in Düsseldorf, a town on the Rhine River, began to attract artists from other German cities and from abroad. Achenbach, one of Düsseldorf's most influential painters in the mid-19th century, specialized in the "sublime" mode of landscape painting, in which man is dwarfed by nature's might and fury. The tattered American flag on the rocks in the foreground implies that there is a shipwreck just out of view. |
Date |
1847 ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Medium |
oil on canvas ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Dimensions |
height: 82.5 cm (32.4 in) ; width: 116.1 cm (45.7 in) ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) dimensions QS:P2048,+82.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+116.1U174728 |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q210081 |
Accession number |
37.116 |
Place of creation |
Siena, Italy |
Object history |
- The Düsseldorf Gallery, New York [John Godfrey Boker, proprietor], 1849-1857
- Cosmopolitan Art Association of Sandusky, Ohio, 1857-1862 [mode of acquisition unknown]
- John Wolfe [date and mode of acquisition unknown]
- John Wolfe Sale, December 22, 1863 (?)
- William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1863 (?), by purchase
- 1894: inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore
- 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
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Exhibition history |
German 19th Century Paintings and Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1983. Savings Bank of Baltimore Special Display. The Savings Bank of Baltimore, Baltimore. 1984. Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 2000-2001. |
Credit line |
Acquired by William T. Walters, 1863 (?) |
Inscriptions |
[Signature] In black on lower left: A. Achenbach; [Date] In black on lower left: 1847 |
References |
Walters Art Museum artwork ID: 19760 ![Edit this at Wikidata](http://up.wiki.x.io/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png) |
Source |
Walters Art Museum: Home page Info about artwork |
Permission (Reusing this file) |
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