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.

Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was an American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion.

Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Prussia, on January 7, 1830, but he spent his early years in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where his parents settled two years after his birth. Henry Bierstadt, the artist's father, found work as a cooper in the capital of America's whaling industry.

Albert Bierstadt was one of the first painters to capture the grandeur of the American West. His family emigrated from Germany in 1832 and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best renowned for his opulent, expansive landscapes of the American West. He painted images from various Westward Expansion expeditions.

Feb 15, 2025 · Albert Bierstadt (born Jan. 7, 1830, near Düsseldorf, Westphalia [Germany]—died Feb. 19, 1902, New York, N.Y., U.S.) was an American artist who painted landscapes and whose tremendous popularity was based on his panoramic scenes of the American West.

Bierstadt is one of America's greatest landscape artists who made epic panoramas of the untamed American West that proved immensely popular with the American public.

This and other popular canvases by the German-born Albert Bierstadt shaped the visual identity of the American West in the United States and abroad. In early 1859 he accompanied a government survey expedition, headed by Frederick W. Lander, to the Nebraska Territory.

Jan 6, 2023 · Despite criticism in his later years for being extravagant and unpolished, Albert Bierstadt is largely regarded today as being one of America’s best landscape painters; a man whose works present a distinctive image of the natural history of America throughout the last half of the 19th century.

By the end of the decade, Bierstadt completed a remarkable series of large scale paintings that secured his position as the premier painter of the American west. In 1867 Bierstadt was invited to exhibit two of his most important paintings, privately before Queen Victoria.