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Oil painting -> List of Painters -> Albert Bierstadt Albert Bierstadt
Career: Bierstadt was popular for his huge landscapes of the American West. When he returned to the United States, he organized an exhibition in New Bedford of 150 paintings which included paintings of the major artists of his day. His painting The Portico of Octavia Rome was bought by the independent libraries in the United States, Boston Athenæum which turned out to be a major phase of his career. From 1859 he made around 3 trips to the west and each time he created several landscapes.He traveled to Colorado and Wyoming territories painting numerous landscapes, in the companionship of a United States government survey expedition.When he returned to his studio in New York,he used the above sketches and painted large(6ft by 10ft) panoramic views of western scenery.The paintings included Looking Down Yosemite Valley and Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains,which were well known for its romantic and theatrical representation of the splendor of the American West. Through these paintings,Bierstadt became extremely popular during 1860’s.
Bierstadt was part of the Hudson River School, which was a mid-19th century American art movement consisting of a group of landscape painters whose artistic vision was influenced by romanticism. Bierstadt's paintings were extensively exhibited in the United States and abroad and commanded some of the maximum prices in American art at the time, although his status began to decline in the 1880s in the face of shifting public tastes. Bierstadt passed away in New York City on February 18, 1902. He is buried in Rural Cemetery in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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