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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

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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 (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 ...