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Albert Bierstadt
Canoes
1888
12.99 x 18.50 ins / 33 x 47 cm
The Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Albert Bierstadt
Italian Lake Scene
14.02 x 19.02 ins / 35.6 x 48.3 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Bahama Cove
13.98 x 18.98 ins / 35.5 x 48.2 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Wind River Mountains Nebraska Territory
1862
Oil on composition board
12.01 x 18.50 ins / 30.5 x 47 cm
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
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Albert Bierstadt
View of Donner Lake, California
1871-1872
29.25 x 21.89 ins / 74.3 x 55.6 cm
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California
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Albert Bierstadt
Lake Louise
c1889-1892
37.99 x 60.00 ins / 96.5 x 152.4 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Boats Ashore at Sunset
12.99 x 23.50 ins / 33 x 59.7 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains
1859
19.02 x 29.02 ins / 48.3 x 73.7 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Albert Bierstadt
Lower Yosemite Valley
19.49 x 13.46 ins / 49.5 x 34.2 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Splendour of the Grand Tetons
30.00 x 44.02 ins / 76.2 x 111.8 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
On the Plains
1863
7.48 x 19.02 ins / 19 x 48.3 cm
Elliott Galleries, New York
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Albert Bierstadt
Wooded Landscape
17.99 x 24.02 ins / 45.7 x 61 cm
Private collection
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Albert Bierstadt
Yosemite Winter Scene
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Albert Bierstadt
Buffalo Trail
1869
29.49 x 49.49 ins / 74.9 x 125.7 cm
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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Albert Bierstadt
The Island
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Albert Bierstadt
Sierra Nevada Morning
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Albert Bierstadt
The Rocky Mountains, Landers Peak
1863
73.50 x 120.75 in / 186.7 x 306.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Guerilla Warfare
1862
15.51 x 18.62 ins / 39.4 x 47.3 cm
The Century Association, New York, USA
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Albert Bierstadt
Four Indians
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Albert Bierstadt
The Old Mill
1855
43.50 x 37.76 in / 110.5 x 95.9 cm
Private collection
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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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