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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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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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