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Albert Bierstadt
Fishing_from_a_Canoe
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Albert Bierstadt
Greater San Francisco Area (Mountain Glade and Mountain Resort)
Date 1859
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Albert Bierstadt
Wasatch Mountains and Great Plains in distance, Nebraska
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Albert Bierstadt
The Wolf River, Kansas
Date 1859
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Albert Bierstadt
Indian_Camp
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Albert Bierstadt
Landscape, New Hampshire
Date 1858
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Albert Bierstadt
Pioneers_of_the_Woods
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Albert Bierstadt
Rocca de Secca
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Albert Bierstadt
Roman Fish Market, Arch of Octavius
Date 1858
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Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt Capri
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Albert Bierstadt
The Wetterhorn
Date 1857(1857)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 122.2 x 96.5 cm (48.1 x 38 in)
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Albert Bierstadt
Storm_Among_the_Alps
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Albert Bierstadt
A Rustic Mill (Farm
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Albert Bierstadt
A River Landscape, Westphalia
Date 1855(1855)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 109.9 x 149.9 cm (43.3 x 59 in)
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Albert Bierstadt
Westphalian_Landscap
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Albert Bierstadt
Day-s_Beginning
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Albert Bierstadt
Among the Bernese Alps
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Albert Bierstadt
Autumn in America, Oneida County, New York
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Albert Bierstadt
Autumn Landscape: The Catskills
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Albert Bierstadt
Bahama_Cove
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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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