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View all 355 artworks. Albert Bierstadt lived in the XIX – XX cent., a remarkable figure of American-German Romanticism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Prussia, on January 7, 1830, but he spent his early years in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where his parents settled two years after his birth. Henry Bierstadt, the artist's father, found work as a cooper in the capital of America's whaling industry. Primarily self-taught, Albert Bierstadt began his ...
Although taken to task by critics in his later years for being excessive and unrefined, Bierstadt is today widely considered one of America's greatest landscape artists; a man whose paintings offer a unique picture of American natural history during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Overview. Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings. Provenance. Title: The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak. Artist: Albert Bierstadt (American, Solingen 1830–1902 New York) Date: 1863. Culture: American. Medium: Oil on canvas. Dimensions: 73 1/2 x 120 3/4 in. (186.7 x 306.7 cm) Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1907. Accession Number: 07.123.
Without color photography, how could people truly comprehend the vast and beautiful nature that sprawled between the two coasts of America? That’s where Albert Bierstadt came in. Although he...
Recognized as the foremost painter of the American frontier during the nineteenth-century, Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, in 1830. At the age of two, he and his family emigrated to the United States, settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Nothing is known of his early art training; however, he might possibly have been ...
Jan 7, 1830 - Feb 18, 1902. Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward...
