Albert Bierstadt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Bierstadt

1800s landscape painter of the American West

Date of Birth: 07-Jan-1830

Place of Birth: Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 18-Feb-1902

Profession: painter

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.
He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes.
He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century. Bierstadt was born in Prussia, but his family moved to the United States when he was 1.
He returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf.
He became part of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who started painting along the Hudson River.
Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism.
Bierstadt was an important interpreter of the western landscape, and he is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School.



Description	American photographer and lithographer
Date of birth/death	1821 / 9 March 1821	9 November 1896
Location of birth/death	Québec	New York
Work location	New York
Authority control	: Q965637 VIAF: 61851763 ISNI: 0000 0000 6663 391X ULAN: 500027268 LCCN: n78013169 NLA: 35301871 WorldCat