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Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt was a German-American artist best known for his monumental landscapes that glorified the American West.
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culture · German-American landscape painter (1830–1902) · painter · photographer · architectural drafter · scenographer · also Albert Bierstadt, Bierstadt
Born 7 January 1830 · Died 18 February 1902 · Q77132
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Albert Bierstadt letter collection
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2020· 1 entry
The Boston Globe: Albert Bierstadt’s idealized vision of the American west? He practiced it in the White Mountains
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2018· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: ‘Albert Bierstadt: Witness to a Changing West’ Review: Where the Sublime Joins the Melancholy
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2008· 1 entry
The USPS issued a commemorative stamp in its "American Treasures" series featuring Bierstadt's 1864 painting Valley of the Yosemite
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1998· 1 entry
The United States Postal Service issued a set of 20 commemorative stamps entitled "Four Centuries of American Art", one of which featured Albert Bierstadt's The Last of the Buffalo
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1902· 2 entries
The taste for epic landscape painting had long since subsided
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Died 1902-02-18.
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1895· 1 entry
In honor of Colorado governor John Evans, and again in 2023 to Blue Sky
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1882· 1 entry
A fire destroyed Bierstadt's studio at Irvington, New York, and, with it, many of his paintings
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1876· 1 entry
And Bierstadt spent increasing amounts of time with her in the warmer climate of Nassau in the Bahamas until her death in 1893
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1870· 1 entry
– Laramie Peak, oil on canvas, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York
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1868· 1 entry
Led a number of explorers to request his presence as part of their westward expeditions
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1867· 1 entry
Bierstadt returned to Europe, arriving in London where he exhibited two landscape paintings in a private reception with Queen Victoria
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1863· 3 entries
Was purchased for $25,000 in 1865, the equivalent of almost $400,000 in 2020
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And paid for a substitute to serve in his place
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Bierstadt traveled west again, this time with the author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, whose wife he later married
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1860· 1 entry
Was elected a member of the National Academy of Design; he received medals in Austria, Bavaria, Belgium, and Germany
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1859· 2 entries
Shifted his artistic focus to the American West
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Bierstadt traveled westward in the company of Frederick W
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1858· 1 entry
Bierstadt exhibited a large painting of a Swiss landscape at the National Academy of Design, which gained him positive critical reception and honorary membership of the Academy
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1857· 2 entries
Studied at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (1853–1857).
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Taught drawing and painting briefly before devoting himself full-time to painting
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1853· 2 entries
And studied painting for several years in Düsseldorf with members of its informal school of painting
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Bierstadt traveled to Germany to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf
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1851· 1 entry
Bierstadt began to paint in oils
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1830· 1 entry
Born 1830-01-07.
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