Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt Biography
Born in Solingen, Germany , Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) emigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts a year after his birth.
When he was 23, he returned to Germany and studied painting at the Dusseldorf School of Painting from 1853 to 1857. Andreas Achenbach and Carl Friedrich Lessing inspired his realistic style of precise brushstrokes and romanticised, panoramic landscapes. (Other US artists also studied in Dusseldorf at the same time including Sanford Gifford, Worthington Whittredge and Carl Wimar.)
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An Albert Bierstadt Reproduction of Sierra Nevadas
A copy of Sierra Nevadas, painted by our specialist in Albert Bierstadt
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An Albert Bierstadt Reproduction of The Turquoise Sea
A copy of Turquoise Sea, painted by our specialist in Albert Bierstadt
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Bahama Cove
13.98 x 18.98 ins / 35.5 x 48.2 cm
Private collectio
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Boats Ashore at Sunset
12.99 x 23.50 ins / 33 x 59.7 cm
Private collection
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Bridal Veil Falls, Yosemite
36.14 x 26.38 ins / 91.8 x 67 cm
c1871-73
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Buffalo Trail
29.49 x 49.49 ins / 74.9 x 125.7 cm
1869
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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Butterfly
5.00 x 7.99 inches / 12.7 x 20.3 cm
1900
Watercolour with gouache
Private collection
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Canoes
12.99 x 18.50 ins / 33 x 47 cm
1888
The Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
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Capri
13.23 x 18.74 ins / 33.6 x 47.6 cm
1857
Tarzoli Gallery, San Rafael, California, USA
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Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Valley
13.86 x 19.13 ins / 35.2 x 48.6 cm
1872
Collection of Ryan M. Cooper
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Cho-looke : The Yosemite Fall
34.49 x 27.13 ins / 87.6 x 68.9 cm
1864
Timken Art Gallery, San Diego, USA
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Donner Lake from the Summit
72.01 x 120.00 ins / 182.9 x 304.8 cm
1873
The New York Historical Society
Albert Bierstadt Biography
In 1857, he returned to America, briefly teaching Art in New Bedford.
In 1959, Bierstadt joined Colonel Frederick W. Lander, a land surveyor, to travel west across the American frontier where he sketched and photographed the dramatic landscape.
These were transformed into huge oil canvasses painted in his studio in New York.
His first major sale was when the Boston Athenaeum purchased The Portico of Octavia Rome in December 1857. Later, he exhibited at the Athenaeum from 1859 to 1864. (Other notable exhibitions included the Brooklyn Art Association from 1861 to 1879 and the Boston Art Club from 1873 to 1880.)
