1896. Oil/canvas, 61 x 109,5 cm, lo. le. monogr. and dat. A. A. 96, some rest., relined. - Exhibitions: The painting was exhibited: Ausstellung von Kunstwerken aus Altonaischem Privatbesitz und des Altonaer Künstler-Vereins im Donnerschen Schloss Altona, 1912, cat. no. 441. - Provenance: Privat collection Altona 1912; since then a Swedish noble collection. - A. was one of the most important landscape and marine painters of the Düsseldorf painting school. He studied at the local academy under J. W. Schirmer. After travelling extensively and living in Munich and Frankfurt he became professor in Düsseldorf in 1859. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Munich, Berlin, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Coogne a. others. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Sitt: A. u. O. Achenbach - Das A un O der Landschaft (Ausst.-Kat. Düsseldorf 1997) a. others.