Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) is a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.

To paint the scenes, Bierstadt joins several journeys of the Westward Expansion.

Though not the first artist to record these sites, Bierstadt is the foremost painter of these scenes for the remainder of the nineteenth century.

Born in Prussia, Bierstadt had been brought to the United States at the age of one by his parents. He later returns to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf. He becomes part of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who start  painting along the Hudson River.

Their style is based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism.

An important interpreter of the western landscape, Bierstadt, along with Thomas Moran, is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School.

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