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Albert Bierstadt
Farallon Islands, off San Francisco in the Pacific, Northern California
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Albert Bierstadt
Evening Glow at Lake Louise, Rocky Mountains, Canada
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Albert Bierstadt
Estes Park, Colorado
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Albert Bierstadt
Buffalo Bill Historical Center
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Medium oil on paper
Dimensions 18.5 X 13.75 cm (7.3 X 5.4 in)
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Albert Bierstadt
Deer at Sunset
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Albert Bierstadt
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Albert Bierstadt
Conway Valley New Hampshire
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Albert Bierstadt
Ruins-Campagna of Rome
1867(1867)
Medium oil on cardboard
Dimensions 8 X 13 in
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Albert Bierstadt
Fishing Boats at Capri
oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions 33.97 X 49.85 cm
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Albert Bierstadt
Autumn in the Conway Meadows looking towards Mount Washington
1858(1858)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 48.26 X 71.12 cm
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Albert Bierstadt
Estes Park
1877(1877)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 30 X 43.75 in
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Albert Bierstadt
Sea and Sky
oil on paper mounted on board
Dimensions 14.125 x 18.25 in
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Albert Bierstadt
Yosemite Falls
1865-1870
Medium oil on canvas
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Albert Bierstadt
View of Wetterhorn from the Valley of Grindelwald
circa 1869(1869)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 71.44 X 49.21 cm
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Albert Bierstadt
Departure of an Indian War Party
Oil on board, 17.25 x 24.25 inches
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Albert Bierstadt
The Sunset at Monterey Bay the California Coast
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| Albert Bierstadt
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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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