Albert bierstadt style of painting

Born in Germany.

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Immigrated to the United States as a child. Paintings show an idealistic view of the American wilderness. Nora Panzer, ed. Bierstadt and his family left Germany when he was two years old. With early ambitions to become a painter, he taught drawing in New Bedford, Massachusetts, then in returned to Germany, where he shared studio space in Dusseldorf with Emanuel Leutze and Worthington Whittredge.

Landers's Honey Road Survey. In he traveled to San Francisco and on to Yosemite. Highly regarded by local patrons and painters, his work commanded top prices. In he returned to California, where he stayed two years, painting views of the Sierra Nevada, including Yosemite.

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Through the mids he traveled in the West as well as to Nassau and Europe. His last trip west was in Changing tastes in the s brought a decline in the popularity of his art, and he narrowly avoided bankruptcy in Albert Bierstadt was one of the first painters to capture the grandeur of the American West. His family emigrated from Germany in and settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

He traveled to Wyoming, California, and Oregon, and turned his New York studio into a museum where people could see his paintings amid a vast collection of animal skins and Native American artifacts.