Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

Your first thought about the landscape paintings that dominated the American art market in the nineteenth century is probably about the grand ones: mammoth canvases by Frederic Edwin Church or Albert ...

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