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Albert Bierstadt

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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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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Albert Bierstadt available:    Thomas Moran,  Childe Hassam,  Frederic Sackrider Remington,  Eanger Irving Couse,  Jasper Francis Cropsey,  George Inness,  Joseph Henry Sharp,  William Trost Richards,  Robert (Henry Cozad) Henri,  William Merritt Chase,  Hermann Ottomar Herzog,  Martin Johnson Heade,  Ernest Lawson,  Alfred Thompson Bricher,  Winslow Homer,  Worthington (Thomas) Whittredge,  Thomas Hart Benton,  Maynard Dixon,  Oscar Berninghaus,  Frank Weston Benson,  Thomas Hill,  Sanford Robinson Gifford,  John George Brown,  Frank Tenney Johnson



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Albert Bierstadt


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
  • Easel Painting
  • Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Stereoscopic Photography, Stereopticon Slides
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
  • Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
  • Gardens, Garden Scenes
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • History: Historical Figures, Sites, Buildings, Events
  • Icebergs, Glaciers
  • Indians, Native American Specialty
  • Indians, Native Americans
  • Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • Narrative, Story Telling
  • National Parks and/or State Parks
  • Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
  • North American/Canadian Frontier, Pioneers
  • Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
  • Pikes Peak, Colorado
  • Portraits, Portraiture
  • Romanticism, Idealism, Nostalgia
  • Seascapes, Seasides
  • Skyscape, Clouds and/or Storms
  • Snowscene, Winter Landscape
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
  • Western Art: Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Ranch Scenes
  • Whaling Scenes
  • Wildlife, Wild Animal
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Adirondack Mountains
  • Alaska Before 1940
  • Barbizon, France
  • California Before 1940
  • Catskill Mountains, New York
  • Colorado Before 1900
  • Colorado Rocky Mountains
  • Europe
  • Germany Before 1900
  • Hudson River Valley, New York
  • Italy Before World War I
  • Lake Tahoe, California
  • Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
  • Missouri River Valley Before 1900
  • Monterey, Carmel California
  • Mount Hood
  • Mount Rainier
  • New Bedford, Massachusetts
  • Niagara Falls
  • Northern California Before 1900
  • Pacific Northwest Before 1900
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • Platte River Valley Before 1900
  • Rocky Mountain School of Painting
  • Russia
  • Virginia Before 1900
  • West of Missouri River Before 1900
  • White Mountains, New Hampshire
  • Woodstock, New York
  • Yellowstone National Park
  • Yosemite National Park
Art Association
  • Boston Art Club
  • Brooklyn Art Association
  • Century Club Association, New York City
  • Malkasten Art Association, Dusseldorf, Germany
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
  • San Francisco Art Association-
Art Teacher
  • Albert Van Beest
Art School
  • Dusseldorf Art Academy, Germany, Student
  • German Academies Before 1900
Chronology
  • Early 19th Century Before Civil War
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Anschutz Collection
  • C. R. Smith Collection-Western
  • Christlieb Collection
  • First National Bank of Chicago Collection
  • Gerald Peters Collection
  • Harmsen Western Art Collection
  • Haussner Collection, Baltimore
  • Jo Ann & Julian Ganz, Jr. Collection
  • John F Eulich Collection
  • John J. McDonough Collection
  • Kahn Collection
  • Preston Morton Collection
  • Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
  • US Capitol Building, Washington DC
  • Walter Bimson Western Art Collection
  • William Foxley Collection-Western
Added Description
  • Expedition Artist of Drawings, Paintings, and/or Photographs
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Pastel Specialty
  • Tenth Street Studio Building Resident, New York
  • Western Subject Specialty
  • Yosemite Park Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Kraushaar Galleries, New York
  • Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition, 1898, Omaha
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Boston Art Club-
  • Brooklyn Art Association-
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Boston Athenaeum
  • Charles Russell Art Show/Auction/ and/or Museum
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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