Oswald Achenbach - In the Albanian Mountains
Oswald Achenbach
In the Albanian Mountains
Oil on canvas. 34 x 28.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: Osw Achenbach 1849.
An early work by the 22 year old Achenbach. With wide, dominating treetops and a view of a narrow strip of sea.
Provenance
Lempertz auction 564, Cologne, 13.6.1978, lot 242. - Private collection, Rhineland.
Literature
Mechthild Potthoff: Oswald Achenbach. Sein künstlerisches Wirken zur Hochzeit des Bürgertums. Studien zu Leben und Werk, Köln und Berlin 1995, p. 262, no. 5, illus. 12.
Exhibitions
Oswald Achenbach, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 1995.