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

Framed

Height

43 in

Width

62 in

Dimension Notes

Unframed

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.”