Albert Flamm was a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 landscape painter, born at Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

. He was a pupil of Andreas Achenbach

Andreas Achenbach

Andreas Achenbach was a German landscape painter.Born at Kassel, he began his art education in 1827 in Düsseldorf under Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow at the Düsseldorf Academy of Painting. He studied at St Petersburg and travelled in Italy, Holland and Scandinavia...

 at Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf

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, where he settled after traveling in Italy

Italy

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. His pictures, the subjects of which were chosen almost exclusively from Italian

Italy

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 scenery, command attention by their truthfulness to nature, careful execution, and bright and varied effects of color. One of his best productions is the "Approaching Storm in the Campagna

Campagna

Campagna is a small town and comune of the province of Salerno, in the Campania region of Southern Italy.-History:The town, located in a mountainous district, gradually lost importance in the 20th century...

" (1862). Among others may be mentioned "Via Appia

Appian Way

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", in the Kunsthalle at Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, a fine "Italian Landscape" (1856), in the Ravené Gallery, Berlin

Berlin

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, and "View of Cumæ" (1881), in the National Gallery in Berlin. In 1900 the title of professor

Professor

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 was conferred upon him.