
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 (186 years ago) in Solingen
- nationality: United States of America, Germany
- education: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf between and (4 years)
- profession: Artist, painter, visual artist
- died on (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
Writings
"Albert Bierstadt" is a book by Gordon Hendricks.
- subject: Albert Bierstadt
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The Encyclopedia of North American Indian Wars, 1607–1890 (2011)
A Political, Social, and Military History by Spencer Tucker, James R. Arnold, Roberta Wiener
Albert Bierstadt, the sixth child of Henry and Christina Bierstadt, was born on January ...
The Early Republic and Antebellum America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History (2015)
An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History by Christopher G. Bates
Later generations of painters still working in the traditions of the Hudson River School, such as the German American Albert Bierstadt, painted huge canvases of spectacular mountains, waterfalls, and storms in the American West.
The Mountain Encyclopedia (2005)
An A to Z Compendium of Over 2,250 Terms, Concepts, Ideas, and People by Frederic Hartemann, Robert Hauptman
Pat Ament, Frédéric and Emanuel André, Kevin Barton, Albert Bierstadt, Nelson Chenkin, Frederic Edwin Church, Jeremy Frimer, Max Giraud, Gary Goldenberg, Fred Hartemann, Judy Hedding, Russ Heinl, Nasrollah Kasraian, Andy Kerry, ...
Historical Dictionary of North American Environmentalism (1997)
by Edward Robert Wells, Alan M. Schwartz
Albert Bierstadt. New York: Watson Guptill, 1981. Bartram, William. Travels. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1958. Beinart, William. Environment and History: The Taming of Nature in the USA and South Africa. New York: Routledge ...
Iconographic Encyclopedia of the Arts and Sciences (1887)
by Johann Georg Heck
Albert Bierstadt ( born in 1829), and Thomas Moran (Q. v.) represent a branch of our landscape- painting that is wholly peculiar to American art, painting from a scenic rather than ...
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Albert Bierstadt - Capri
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Albert Bierstadt - Emerald Sea
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Albert Bierstadt - Tropical Landscape
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Albert Bierstadt - Puget Sound On The Pacific Coast
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Albert Bierstadt - Nassau Harbor
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Albert Bierstadt - Sacramento River Valley
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Albert Bierstadt - Island of New Providence
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Albert Bierstadt -Evening, Owens Lake, California
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Albert Bierstadt - Light in the Forest
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Albert Bierstadt - On the Plains, Sunset
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Albert Bierstadt - The Last of the Buffalo
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Albert Bierstadt - The Old Mill
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Albert Bierstadt - South and North Moat Mountains
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Albert Bierstadt - Indian Rider at Sunset
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Lake Lucerne by Albert Bierstadt
National Gallery in Washington DC
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Albert Bierstadt - A View In The Bahamas
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Among the Sierra Nevada, California - Albert Bierstadt,
Among the Sierra Nevada, California
1868
Albert Bierstadt
Born: Solingen, Germany 1830
Died: New York, New York 1902
oil on canvas
overall: 72 x 120 1/8 in. (183 x 305 cm) frame: 96 1/4 x 144 3/8 x 7 1/
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull, granddaughter of William Brown Dinsmore, who acquired the painting in 1873 for "The Locusts," the family estate in Dutchess County, New York
1977.107.1
Smithsonian American Art Museum
2nd Floor, East WingPhoto credit: marialgilbert
Lake Lucerne by Albert Bierstadt
oil on canvas 1858
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"Estes Park, Colorado" by Albert Bierstadt
Western American Art at the DAM
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Albert Bierstadt - Fishing From A Canoe
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