Albert Bierstadt

1830–1902 · Romanticism & Landscape

Biography

Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902), born in Germany and raised in Massachusetts, trained in Düsseldorf. His huge, dramatic paintings of the Rocky Mountains and Sierra Nevada made him one of the most celebrated American artists of his day.

Paintings in this gallery (1)

Among the Sierra Nevada, California

Albert Bierstadt · 1868

Famous works elsewhere

North Dome, Yosemite Valley 1889
The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak 1863
Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California 1865
The Last of the Buffalo 1888
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie 1866
Indians in Council, California 1872