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Albert Bierstadt
Buffalo Head
mk162
c.1879
Oil on paper
12x15
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Albert Bierstadt
Last of the Buffalo
mk162
c.1888
Oil on canvas
60x96
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Albert Bierstadt
Between the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in Californie
MK169
1868
oil Paint on cloth
183x305cm
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Albert Bierstadt
Die Wasserfalle von St Anthony
mk181
um 1880-87
Lugano
Sammlung
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Albert Bierstadt
Westfallische Landschaft
mk181
1855
Shelburne
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Albert Bierstadt
Die Rocke Mountains
mk181
1863
New York
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Albert Bierstadt
Der Letzte Buffel
mk181
1889
Cody
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Albert Bierstadt
Ein Sturm in den RockY Mountains,Mount Rosalie
mk181
1866
Ol auf Leiwand
210.8x361.3cm
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Albert Bierstadt
Attack on a Picket Post
mk195
1862
Oil on canvas
15x17
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Albert Bierstadt
The last Mossback
mk212
1888
Oil on canvas
180.7x301.6cm
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Albert Bierstadt
During the mountain
mk212
1868
Oil on canvas
71x120in
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Albert Bierstadt
Multnomah Falls
mk217
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Albert Bierstadt
Mountain Man
mk217
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Albert Bierstadt
the conflagration
mk247
1860 to 90,oil on paper,worcester art museum,worcester,ma,usa
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Albert Bierstadt
Storm in the Rocky Mountains
Storm in the Rocky Mountains (Mount Rosa), 1886
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Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt Looking Down Yosemite Valley
Albert Bierstadt's Looking Down Yosemite Valley (1865)
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Albert Bierstadt
California Redwoods
Medium English: Oil on paper mounted on canvas
Dimensions 19 1/8 x 14 in.
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Albert Bierstadt
Storm in the Rocky Mountains Mt Rosalie
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 210.8 X 361.3 cm
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Albert Bierstadt
California Redwoods
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
1872
19 1/8 x 14 in. (48.6 x 35.6 cm)
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Albert Bierstadt
Oregon Trail,
Oregon Trail, Oil on canvas, 31 x 49" (78.74 x 124.46 cm), displayed at Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
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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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