Background
Albert Arnz was the son of Maria Catharina Carolina and Heinrich Arnz (1785–1854), a well-known bookseller and printer (he owned Arnz & Comp).
Albert Arnz was the son of Maria Catharina Carolina and Heinrich Arnz (1785–1854), a well-known bookseller and printer (he owned Arnz & Comp).
He studied painting from 1854 to 1860 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, there two of his teachers were Andreas and Oswald Achenbach.
The latter married Arnz"s sister Julie (born 1827), and with him he traveled to Italy a number of times. Yet another brother in law, husband of Arnz"s oldest sister Marie (born 1825), was the historical painter Joseph Fay. Arnz"s brother August (born 1813) was the manager of the Arnz & Company
Finally, Friedrich (born 1826) married Antonetta Josepha, the sister of Düsseldorfer portrait and genre painter Philipp Schmitz (1824–1887), in 1851.
Combined driver Benno von Achenbach and naval engineer Oswald Flamm were nephews of Arnz. He lived at Schadowstraße 52, the location where in 1900 the Jugendstil-styled Ibach-Haus was built.
Hermann Alexander Müller: Biographisches Künstler-Lexikon. Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, Leipzig 1882, South. 19 (Digitalisat)
Hans Wolfgang Singer (ed): Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon.
Sechster Band, zweiter Nachtrag mit Berichtigungen, Literarische Anstalt Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt am Main 1922, South. 3 (Digitalisat)
Friedrich von Boetticher: Malerwerke des 19.
Jahrhunderts. I/1, Dresden 1891, South. 40, Near 8
Adolf Rosenberg: Geschichte der modernen Kunst.
Volume 2: Die deutsche Kunst.
F. West. Grunow, Leipzig 1894, p.
Arnz was a member of the art society Malkasten and participated in their tableaux vivants beginning in 1875.