He went west first in 1859 on a government expedition and spent some time sketching in Wind River and Shoshone country that summer. His work is found in numerous museums and private collections, including the Utah Museum of Fine Arts and Brigham Young University. He also resided in New Belford, Massachusetts, and Tappan Zee, New York. Other notable works include Valley of Yosemite (1864), The Heart of Andes (1859), Sunset Light, Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains (1861), and Yosemite Valley Sunset in the Yosemite Valley (1868).īiographical information on this page was adapted from Artists of Utah.Īlbert Bierstadt (1830-1902), the famed landscaper painter, was born in Solingen, Germany brought up in America studied in Dusseldorf, Germany sketched in the West painted scenes of the West in a Dusseldorf-Hudson River School manner in New York State was internationally renowned for his Rocky Mountain paintings lived in a mansion on the Hudson and died in New York City flat broke. In 1863, he was in Utah where he painted The Great Salt Lake (1863). The paintings of John Tullidge, George Beard, Alfred Lambourne, and H. His use of large canvases influenced many Utah landscape artists. Bierstadt's “great pictures” emphasize large-scale scenery and dramatic light effects. Expeditionary forces mapped, photographed, and painted the far west territories. In 1859, Bierstadt was the first major painter to go west as a member of Frederick Lander's expeditionary party. He sketched in the Wind River and Shoshone country during the summer of 1861. In 1853 he traveled to Düsseldorf, Germany to study in landscape painting with German-American painter Emanuel Leutze. In the mid-1800s, Americans were interested in remote national territories. Bierstadt died in New York City on February 18, 1902.
Albert Bierstadt immigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts, with his family in 1832. Albert Bierstadt was born Januin Solingen, Germany. He was a landscape painter who painted so-called “great pictures” in the Hudson River style in the mid-1800s.