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Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902) was active/lived in New York, California, Massachusetts, Kansas / Germany.  Albert Bierstadt is known for Romanticized western landscape paintings, photography.

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Likely the most famous and financially successful late 19th-century painter of the American western landscape, Albert Bierstadt created grandiose, dramatic scenes of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevadas that lured many people to visit those sites. He was also one of the first artists to use a camera to record landscape views.

His oil paintings, many of them huge, were the ultimate expression of the popular 19th-century Romanticism.  But his reputation diminished when public taste in art changed dramatically and replaced Realism and Romanticism with Impressionism and when transcontinental railway travel revealed that the West looked nothing like his idealized paintings.

Bierstadt was born in Solingen, near Dusseldorf, Germany, and sailed as a baby with his family who settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts.  Unlike many of his successful peers, as a child, he showed only casual interest in and talent for art, and he had little encouragement from h   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 51073 characters.]  Artist bio

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Star King Mountain
Albert Bierstadt
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Price:  SOLD
Title:  Star King Mountain
Type:  Painting
Medium:  Oil
Style:  Other
Subject:  Landscape
Signature:  Lower Right
Size:  14.00" x 19.00"

Description:  Sold for $497,250 at Scottsdale Art Auction! Now accepting consignments. Please contact us by phone at 480-945-0225 or by email at [email protected]

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