After a Storm Near Ostend

Painting

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Drexel Founding Collection

Name/Title

After a Storm Near Ostend

Entry/Object ID

33

Acquisition

Source (if not Accessioned)

John D. Lankenau

Notes

Date: 1901 Credit Line: The John D. Lankenau Collection Means of Accession: Bequest

Made/Created

Artist

Andreas Achenbach

Date made

1878

Place

Country

Germany

Continent

Europe

Dimensions

Height

52 in

Width

70 in

Dimension Notes

H, W: 43x62 in; H, W: 109.22x157.48 cm; Framed: 52x70 in

Height

43 in

Width

62 in

Height

109.22 cm

Width

157.48 cm

Interpretative Labels

Label Type

Exhibition Label

Label

Andreas Achenbach, along with his brother Oswald, was a leading artist in the Düsseldorf Academy. The Drexel Founding Collection has five of their paintings: four by Oswald and one by Andreas. They were dubbed the “alpha and omega of landscape.”