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Facts

Born September 29, 1815 • Kassel • Germany
Died April 1, 1910 (aged 94) • Düsseldorf • Germany
Movement / Style Düsseldorf school

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Andreas Achenbach: Sunset After a Storm on the Coast of Sicily
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Caspar David Friedrich: Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
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Oswald Achenbach
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Painting by Claude Monet, Self-portrait in Beret, 1886, showing Monet with a full beard, dark beret, and coat against a light, textured background.
Claude Monet
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J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
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Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
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Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
Claude Lorrain
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Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
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Ryder, Albert Pinkham: The Hunter
Albert Pinkham Ryder
American painter
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Paul Nash
British painter
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John Marin
American artist
Boudin, Eugène: Women on the Beach at Berck
Eugène Boudin
French painter
Paul Signac
Paul Signac
French painter
“The Mask of Joseph Vernet,” chalk and pastel portrait by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour; in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, Fr.
Joseph Vernet
French painter
Weenix, Jan Baptist: Landscape with Shepherdess
Jan Baptist Weenix
Dutch painter
Milton Avery, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1961
Milton Avery
American painter
George Caleb Bingham: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham
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Worthington Whittredge: The Trout Pool
Worthington Whittredge
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Bierstadt, Albert
Albert Bierstadt
American painter
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
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Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter

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