![]() ![]() He also created two historical paintings for the US Capitol Building. His works were highly sought after and graced many a wall in museums in both the United States and around the world. The 1870's saw the height of popularity for Albert Bierstadt. A beautiful alpine lake in Rocky Mountain National Park was also named after him. In fact, he became so well liked in Colorado and his prints so well known that they named a mountain after him - Mount Bierstadt - which stands along the Front Range near Mount Evans. ![]() Later in the 1860's, Albert Bierstadt returned to Colorado and spent several years painting the beautiful mountains and landscapes that are found there. In 1863, Albert Bierstadt once again ventured westward, this time beyond the Sierra Nevada. Their large size, their beautiful use of colors as well as attention to details in the foreground all combined to make the paintings by Albert Bierstadt highly prized. The paintings by Albert Bierstadt became very popular with the American public. His beautiful and famous print, The Rocky Mountains, was on a canvas measuring over sixty square feet. Believing that the beauty of the Rocky Mountains could not be captured on a small oil paint, he paintings were produced on large, often over-sized, canvasses. The wide variety of wildlife he encountered, along with the beautiful scenery and historic events that were unfolding, would be of invaluable importance for his future paintings.įollowing this trip, Albert Bierstadt returned east and began to produce some of his most spectacular paintings. ![]() Despite his upbringing in the east, he found he also enjoyed camp life. He was also intrigued by the Indians, and unlike most other Americans during that time period, did not consider them ruthless savages. His observations of the overland migration became some of the most fruitful sources of ideas for future artwork by Albert Bierstadt.Īs the expedition reached the mountains, Albert Bierstadt became much taken in with their beauty. He met many emigrants returning east who were unable to find their riches in the Colorado gold strikes, and met others who joined their party on their trek west. The expedition followed the Oregon Trail, providing Albert Bierstadt with first hand knowledge of the events that played out along this historic and scenic trail. The purpose of the expedition, which was to travel all the way to California, was to improve the mountain passes of the trails. He made his first trip west in 1859, accompanying a government expedition led by Frederic Lander. By the time he returned to the United States in 1857, Albert Bierstadt had gained a tremendous amount of experience in landscape paintings, sketches and drawings. Traveling widely over Europe, Albert Bierstadt produced sketches and drawings of the Alps. In 1853, Albert Bierstadt returned to Dusseldorf in Germany for three years, where he studied art intensely. Despite prodding from his family to not become an artist, Albert Bierstadt persisted and produced his first oil painting at the age of 21. His family moved to Massachusetts two years later. His use of vivid colors and inspiring scenery have made Albert Bierstadt one of the most popular artists of the American West and made him the most popular artist of the 1870's.Īlbert Bierstadt was born near Dusseldorf in 1830. The paintings by Albert Bierstadt were often oversized, highly colorful and portrayed the immense distances and scale of the American West. Sir John Everett Millais paintings (246)Īlbert Bierstadt was one finest artist to portray the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains.William McGregor Paxton Paintings (136).Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Paintings (245).Frederick Arthur Bridgman Paintings (208).John Frederick Herring Sr Paintings (852).John William Waterhouse Paintings (118).Frederick Carl Frieseke Paintings (185).Charles Courtney Curran Paintings (150).Cassius Marcellus Coolidge Paintings (30).Maurice Brazil Prendergast Paintings (349).Frederick Childe Hassam Paintings (808).Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Paintings (279). ![]()
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