Oscar Achenbach

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Self-portrait with a green vest

Oscar Hermann Martin Achenbach (also Oskar Achenbach ; born December 31, 1868 in Stettin ; † August 22, 1935 in Wiesbaden ) was a German portrait and landscape painter , graphic artist and draftsman .

Cypress pond at Villa Falconieri near Rome

Life

Achenbach was born in Stettin as the son of a master furrier . Here he attended the Marienstiftsgymnasium and did an apprenticeship as a graphic artist in a lithographic institute. After the death of his parents, he worked as a freelance artist in Berlin and traveled from there to places in Germany, Italy and Norway . From spring 1907 to March 1908 he lived in Rome , where he was a member of the German Art Association . He attended courses at the teaching institute of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin and at the Royal Academy of the Arts there .

As a soldier he was posted to Limburg an der Lahn during the First World War , where he was deployed in the mail control center of the officers' prison camp because of his language skills. After the war until shortly before his death he lived in Runkel , where he founded his own publishing house for the publication of his work, the Born-Verlag. His paintings, drawings and photographs are in numerous private collections at home and abroad.

Exhibitions

  • 2011: Oskar Achenbach (1868–1935) - painting and graphics. Szczecin, Castle of the Pomeranian Dukes (Zamek Książąt Pomorskich)
  • 2018: Oscar Achenbach - “Between North Cape and Capri.” Barth , Vineta Museum

Works (selection)

  • Watercolors and stone drawings. 1916/17 [14 scenic representations of the First World War]

literature

  • Melanie Ehler: Longing for perfection in an imperfect world. The landscape painter Oscar Achenbach (1868–1935). In: Pommern, magazine for culture and history , ISSN  0032-4167 , issue 4/2009, pp. 26–32.
  • Rüdiger Meixner: From Berlin to the Lahn. The Runkel painter Oscar Achenbach (1868–1935). In: Nassauische Annalen , Volume 120. 2009, pp. 541-600.
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , p. 25 f.
  • Renata Zdero, Johannes Achenbach (ed.): Oscar Achenbach. Zamek Książąt Pomorskich, Szczecin 2011, ISBN 978-83-60816-53-0 .
  • Gerd-Helge Vogel : The landscape painter and portraitist Oscar Achenbach, 1868–1935. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86732-321-5 .

Web links

Commons : Oscar Achenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Oskar Achenbach (1868–1935) - painting and graphics, according to Stettin.com, March 21, 2011. ( Memento from April 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Friedrich Noack : The Germanness in Rome since the end of the Middle Ages . Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1927, Volume 2, p. 54
  3. ↑ Manfred Horz: From Berlin to Runkel. In: Taunus-Zeitung of November 2, 2011. ( online )
  4. ↑ Oscar Achenbach - “Between North Cape and Capri.” Special exhibition from 23 August 2018 - until summer 2019. Vineta-Museum Barth, accessed on 22 August 2018 .
  5. ↑ Stefanie Büssing: Oscar Achenbach, the "Nordic Impressionist" . In: Ostsee-Zeitung . 22 August 2018, p. II .
  6. ↑ Oscar Achenbach: Watercolors and stone drawings. ( Digitized version of the University Library Potsdam )
personal data
SURNAME Achenbach, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Achenbach, Oskar; Achenbach, Oscar Hermann Martin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait and landscape painter, graphic artist and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1935
Place of death Wiesbaden