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Albert Bierstadt
By_a_Mountain_Lake
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Albert Bierstadt
In the Forest
Date circa 1880(1880)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 36 x 26 in (91.4 x 66 cm)
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Albert Bierstadt
Moose Hunters' Camp, Nova Scotia
Date ~1880
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Albert Bierstadt
The_Wave
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Albert Bierstadt
Palm Tree, Nassau by Albert Bierstadt
Date After 1877
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Albert Bierstadt
Street in Nassau
Date between 1877(1877) and 1880(1880)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 35.5 x 48.3 cm (14 x 19 in)
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Albert Bierstadt
The_Ambush
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Albert Bierstadt
Dogwood by Albert Bierstadt
Date After 1875
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Albert Bierstadt
California Spring
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Albert Bierstadt
Lake Tahoe, Spearing Fish by Torchlight
Date 1875
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Albert Bierstadt
The Open Glen, New England
Date 1875-1879
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Albert Bierstadt
A View From Sacramento
Date 1875
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Albert Bierstadt
Western Kansas
Description Western Kansas
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Albert Bierstadt
Campfire Site, Yosemite
Date ~1873
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 76.2 x 60.96 cm (30 x 24 in)
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Albert Bierstadt
Study_for_Yosemite_Valle
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Albert Bierstadt
Beach Scene
Date 1872(1872)
Dimensions 19.25 x 24.25 in (48.9 x 61.6 cm)
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Albert Bierstadt
Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley
Date 1872
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Albert Bierstadt
Cathedral Rocks, A Yosemite View
Date ~1872
Medium Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions 48.26 x 34.92 cm (19 x 13.7 in)
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Albert Bierstadt
Indians in Council, California
Date circa 1872(1872)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 40.4 x 55.5 cm (15.9 x 21.9 in)
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Albert Bierstadt
Landscape, Rockland County, California
Date 1872
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German-born American Hudson River School Painter, 1830-1902
Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany. His family moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1833. He studied painting with the members of the D??sseldorf School in D??sseldorf, Germany from 1853 to 1857. He taught drawing and painting briefly before devoting himself to painting.
Bierstadt began making paintings in New England and upstate New York. In 1859, he traveled westward in the company of a Land Surveyor for the U.S. government, returning with sketches that would result in numerous finished paintings. In 1863 he returned west again, in the company of the author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, whose wife he would later marry. He continued to visit the American West throughout his career.
Though his paintings sold for princely sums, Bierstadt was not held in particularly high esteem by critics of his day. His use of uncommonly large canvases was thought to be an egotistical indulgence, as his paintings would invariably dwarf those of his contemporaries when they were displayed together. The romanticism evident in his choices of subject and in his use of light was felt to be excessive by contemporary critics. His paintings emphasized atmospheric elements like fog, clouds and mist to accentuate and complement the feel of his work. Bierstadt sometimes changed details of the landscape to inspire awe. The colors he used are also not always true. He painted what he believed is the way things should be: water is ultramarine, vegetation is lush and green, etc. The shift from foreground to background was very dramatic and there was almost no middle distance
Nonetheless, his paintings remain popular. He was a prolific artist, having completed over 500 (possibly as many as 4000) paintings during his lifetime, most of which have survived. Many are scattered through museums around the United States. Prints are available commercially for many. Original paintings themselves do occasionally come up for sale, at ever increasing prices.
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