The school in Düsseldorf comprises a group of painters who taught or studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf during the 1830s and 1840s, when the painter Wilhelm von Schadow was the director. The works of the school of Düsseldorf are characterized by very detailed but still extravagant landscapes, often with religious or allegorical tales. Leading members of the school recommended pleinairism, and used to use a palette with low, uniform colors. The Düsseldorf school grew up and was part of the German romantic movement. Prominent painters included von Schadow, Karl Friedrich Lessing, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer, Andreas Achenbach, Hans Fredrik Gude, Oswald Achenbach and Adolf Schrödter. The school in Düsseldorf had a great influence on the Hudson River School in the United States, and many important Americans studied at the Düsseldorf Academy and demonstrated the influence of the Düsseldorf school, including George Caleb Bingham, Eastman Johnson, Worthington Whittredge, Richard Caton Woodville, William Stanley Haseltine, James McDougal Hart and William Morris Hunt, as well as German exile Emanuel Leutze. Albert Bierstadt applied but was not accepted. His American friend Worthington Whittredge became his teacher while attending Düsseldorf.
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