biography
pronunciation:
[akhenbakh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1815–1910)
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| biography:
| Landscape and marine painter, born in Kassel, C Germany. He studied at St Petersburg, then travelled extensively in Holland, Scandinavia, and Italy, where he produced many water-colours. His paintings of the North Sea coasts of Europe had considerable influence in Germany, and he came to be regarded as the father of 19th-c German landscape painting. |
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