Albert Biersta

A detailed Summary of 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

y where he first became interested in art. In recorded history, Alberts art career began May 13, 1850, with a publication of an offer to teach monochromatic painting. Soon after the artist had his own studio and began to show his work. Albert was a realist and painted with oils on Canvas.

In 1869, back in the United States, Albert and his wife stayed at Niagara Falls where he painted more pictures. Two years later he went on his third trip west stopping at the same places as before. This trip though was during winter giving the scenes a new look. He stayed in California for three years painting the High Sierras, ocean views, and other surrounding views.

With is return Albert created some of his greatest works. The Rocky Mountains, a painting he exaggerated, and dramatized by adding glaciers, a waterfall, and an Indian camp, received much recognition. A Storm in the Rocky Mountains along with his Yosemite Valley collection were both highly denoted.

During his first two years back in America Albert spent his time showing his work at various different exhibitions. In September of 1857 he received news of an expedition westward in which he eagerly joined. At the time Settlers were just beginning to move west, and conflicts with Indian tribes grew worse. The expedition was called forth to find an alternative rout west that was out of the way of the Indian tribes. Albert set off on his journey with fellow artist F.S. Frost and leader of the group Fredrick Lander. They left in May of the following year stopping first at Troy, Kansas, then moving on to the Little Blue and the Platte at Fort Kearney. At the crossing

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