Albert Biersta
For more than a century, Albert Bierstadt’s sweeping canvases of snow-capped mountain ranges, radiant sunsets, colorful Indian tribes, and buffalo roaming the plains have captured the public imagination with a Romantic vision of a vast and beautiful continent waiting to be seen, explored, and conquered. Today that splendid wilderness is all but vanished, and with its passing Bierstadt’s portrayals of the beauty and drama of the Western landscape take on fresh meaning for a new generation of Americans. On January 7th, 1830, in Solingen, Germany, a small town a few miles inland from Dusseldorf, Christina Bierstadt gave birth to her sixth son, Albert. At the time Germany was still recovering from the Napoleonic Wars making it a far from ideal place to raise children. So two years later the Bierstadt family left their home and sailed to America in hopes of a better life. They arrived in Bedford, Massachusetts on February 22, 1832. Soon after their arrival Alberts father, Henry, set up a cooperage shop (a woodworking business that was part of the whaling industry). Albert’s two brothers bother followed in their fathers footsteps while Albert choose his own path. It is said that Albert worked at a frame shop, if true this is probabl
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