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Albert Bierstadt
American 1830 -1902
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Born: |
Solingen Germany
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Died: |
New York New York
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Active: |
Dusseldorf Germany 1853 New Bedford Massachusetts 1832-1859 New York New York 1859-on Irvington-on-Hudson New York 1860s
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Addresses: |
New Bedford Massachusetts 1850-1853, 1857-1859 New York New York 1860-1870, after 1873 San Francisco California 1871-1873
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Studied: |
Dusseldorf Academy 1853-1857 Rome 1853-1857
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Instructors: |
Andreas Achenbach 1853-1857 Carl Lessing 1853-1857 Thomas Worthington Whittredge 1857 Sanford Robinson Gifford 1857 William Stanley Haseltine 1857
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Exhibited: |
New York Sanitary Exhibition April, 1864 National Academy of Design 1858-1888 New Bedford Art Exhibition 1858 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1859-1867 Boston Athenaeum 1859-1864 Brooklyn Art Association 1861-1881 Austria Germany Bavaria Belgium Cross of Legion of Honor, France 1867 Belgium 1869, 1875, 1879, 1880, 1882, 1889
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Examples of Work: |
Brooklyn Museum of Art Capitol Building, Washington DC Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Boston St. Johnsbury Athenaeum, Vermont Union League of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Specialty: |
Painter
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Style/School: |
Hudson River School
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Subjects Known For: |
Landscapes Animal / Wildlife
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Memberships: |
National Academy of Design Honorary 1858; NA 1860 Boston Art Club National Institute of Arts and Letters Century Association American Geographical Society Union League Club
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BIOGRAPHY: |
Albert Bierstadt was like most painters of the Rocky Mountains in the nineteenth century, he was foreign born. He was born in 1830 in Soligen, near Dusseldorf, Germany and died in New York in 1902. He and his family emig...
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Albert Bierstadt was the most esteemed and widely-known painter of the American West during the second half of the nineteenth century. His paintings reveal a uniquely romantic vision of what was then considered the exotic "oth...
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