Albert Bierstadt

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Who is Albert Bierstadt?

Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion. Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt was the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the 19th century.

• also known as 阿爾伯特·比爾施塔特; Бирштадт, Альберт
• born on 7 January 1830 (186 years ago) in Solingen
• nationality: United States of America, Germany
• education: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between 1853 and 1857 (4 years)
• profession: Artist, painter, visual artist
• died on 18 February 1902 (113 years ago) in New York City

Character

Albert Bierstadt is a fictional character from the 1994 film Maverick.

• in the film "Maverick", played by Vilmos Zsigmond

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"Albert Bierstadt" is a book by Gordon Hendricks.

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The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890: A Political, Social, and Military History [3 volumes] (2011)

A Political, Social, and Military History by Spencer C. Tucker

Albert Bierstadt, the sixth child of Henry and Christina Bierstadt, was born on January ...

Iconographic Encyclopedia of the Arts and Sciences: Sculpture and painting, by M. Carrière; Ancient art, by A. Marquand; Early Christian and mediaeval art, by A.L. Frothingham, jr.: Modern art, by S.G.W. Benjamin (1887)

Albert Bierstadt (born in 1829), ...

The Grove Dictionary of Art (2000)

From renaissance to impressionism : styles and movements in western art 1400-1900 by Jane Turner

In the 1850s and 1860s the Hudson River school flourished, and its most important figures, Church, Cropsey, Kensett, Sanford Gifford, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran and Worthington Whittredge, many of whom maintained painting rooms in ...

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