|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Men in Two Canoes
Date 1866
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Sunset in the Rockies
Date 1866
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Rocky Mountains
Date 1866
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mr. Rosalie
Date 1866(1866)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 210.8 x 361.3 cm (83 x 142.2 in
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California
Date 1865(1865)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 162.6 x 244.5 cm (64 x 96.3 in)
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Looking up Yosemite Valley
Date 1865-1867
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Staubbach Falls, Near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland
Date ~1865
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 96.52 x 153.67 cm (38 x 60.5 in)
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Sunset on the Coast
Date 1865-1866,
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Oregon Trail (Campfire)
Date 1863
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
The_Plains_Near_Fort_Laramie
Date upload
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
Date 1863(1863)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 186.7 x 306.7 cm (73.5 x 120.7 in)
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Yosemite Valley, California
Date ~1863
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
The_Fishing_Fleet
Date upload
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Guerrilla_Warfare (Picket Duty In Virginia)
Date upload
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Mount Washington
Date 1862
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
In_the_Foothills
Date upload
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Scene in the Sierra Nevada
Date ~1861
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 45.72 x 60.96 cm (18 x 24 in)
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Indian Encampment, Shoshone Village - in a riparian forest, western United States
Date 1860
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
View of Chimney Rock, Ogalillalh Sioux Village in Foreground
Date 1860
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Albert Bierstadt
Bernese Alps, oil on canvas
Date 1859
ttd
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
| Albert Bierstadt
|
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.
|
