1856. Oil/paper/wood. 28,5 x 39 cm. Lo. ri. sign. and dat. Osw. Achenbach 56 as well as inscribed Capri. Zustand Min. dam. - One of the most famous landscape painters of his time, younger brother of Andreas A. He studied at the Düsseldorf academy and travelled Bavaria a. Tyrolia. After travelling Italy in 1845 he mainly painted landscapes from that country. Mus.: Munich, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Coogne, Düsseldorf, Kiel a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Potthoff: O.A. - Leben und Werk, 1995 a. others.