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Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes.
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 ...
Albert Bierstadt was one of the first painters to capture the grandeur of the American West. His family emigrated from Germany in 1832 and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He traveled to Wyoming, California, and Oregon, and turned his New York studio into a museum where people could see his paintings amid a vast collection of animal skins ...
May 1, 2024 · Albert Bierstadt (born Jan. 7, 1830, near Düsseldorf, Westphalia [Germany]—died Feb. 19, 1902, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was an American artist who painted landscapes and whose tremendous popularity was based on his panoramic scenes of the American West.
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.
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.
