Likely the most famous and financially successful late 19th-century painter of the American western landscape, Albert Bierstadt created grandiose, dramatic scenes of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra... Read full biography
Likely the most famous and financially successful late 19th-century painter of the American western landscape, Albert Bierstadt created grandiose, dramatic scenes of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevadas that lured many people to visit those sites. He was also one of the first artists to use a... Read full biography
Likely the most famous and financially successful late 19th-century painter of the American western landscape, Albert Bierstadt created grandiose, dramatic scenes of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevadas that lured many people to visit those sites. He was also one of the first artists to use a camera to record landscape views. His oil paintings, many of them huge, were the ultimate expression of the popular 19th-century Romanticism. But his reputation diminished when public taste in art... Read full biography
Likely the most famous and financially successful late 19th-century painter of the American western landscape, Albert Bierstadt created grandiose, dramatic scenes of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevadas that lured many people to visit those sites. He was also one of the first artists to use a camera to record landscape views. His oil paintings, many of them huge, were the ultimate expression of the popular 19th-century Romanticism. But his reputation diminished when public taste in art changed dramatically and replaced Realism and Romanticism with Impressionism and when transcontinental railway travel revealed that the West looked nothing like his idealized paintings. Bierstadt was born in Solingen, near Dusseldorf, Germany, and sailed... Read full biography
Likely the most famous and financially successful late 19th-century painter of the American western landscape, Albert Bierstadt created grandiose, dramatic scenes of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevadas that lured many people to visit those sites. He was also one of the first artists to use a camera to record landscape views. His oil paintings, many of them huge, were the ultimate expression of the popular 19th-century Romanticism. But his reputation diminished when public taste in art changed dramatically and replaced Realism and Romanticism with Impressionism and when transcontinental railway travel revealed that the West looked nothing like his idealized paintings. Bierstadt was born in Solingen, near Dusseldorf, Germany, and sailed as a baby with his family who settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Unlike many of his successful peers, as a... Read full biography
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About Albert Bierstadt: Books
Books & Publications (434)
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The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
2021
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
528 pages (color)
Nicholas R. Brewer: His Art and Family
2018
L'Enfant, Julie
400 pages (color)
Treasured Landscapes: National Park Service Art Collections Tell America's Stories (National Park Service)
2016
Bacharach, Joan (General Editor)
160 pages (color)
Picturing the Americas: Landscape Painting from Tierra Del Fuego to the Arctict
2015
Edited by Brownlee, Peter; Valeria Piccoll and Georjiana Uhlyark
320 pages (color)
John Fery: Artist of Glacier National Park & The American West
2015
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
288 pages (color)
The Heroic Journey of Albert Bierstadt: Artist-Priest of the West A Historical Biography
2012
Delo, David M.
357 pages (color)
Karol Mack: The History, The Sublime, The Paintings
2010
Berney, Charlotte; Brian C. Mack, Pat McKee, James H. Pickering
143 pages (color)
Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
2009
Harris, Adam Duncan
262 pages (color)
The Power of Place: Paintings That Define the American Image (Exhibition catalog)
2008
Gilbert-Smith, Alma; Lonnie Pierson Dunbier and Jo Evarts
23 pages (color)
California Impressions: Landscapes from the Wendy Willrich Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Alfred C. Harrison, Jr.
112 pages (color)
Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945
2006
Craig, Susan (Compiler)
0 pages
Yosemite: Art of an American Icon (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Scott, Amy (Editor); Brian Bibby, William Deverell, et all
221 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Masterworks of American Painting at the De Young (De Young Museum)
2005
Burgard, Timothy Anglin; Daniell Cornell
573 pages (color)
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
American Artists Abroad and Their Inspiration: Selections from the Lyman Allyn Art Museum
2004
64 pages (color)
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Selections III Brock & Co.
2004
Hankin, Lisa Bush
47 pages (color)
Classic Ground: Mid-Nineteenth Century American Painting and the Italian Encounter (Exhibition catalog)
2004
Manoguerra & Simon (essays)
124 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Circles of Influence, A Timeline
2004
Vose, Marcia (editor)
38 pages (color)
Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
2003
Kornhauser, Ellis, and Miesmer
0 pages (color)
Dreams and Dramas: Moonlight and Twilight in American Art (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Leeds, Valerie (Essay)
88 pages (color)
Recounting the Old West II: Important Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper
2003
Tierney, Curtis (editor)
71 pages (color)
Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors Winter 2003, Volume XI
2003
Vose, Marcia Latimore (Editor)
36 pages (color)
American Beauty: Paintings from Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920 (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Beal, Graham
128 pages (color)
Primal Visions: Albert Bierstadt Discovers America (Exhibition catalog)
2002
Fischer, Diane P (curator)
90 pages (color)
Drawn to Yellowstone: Artists in America's First National Park