Portrait of Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt Painting Reproductions 1 of 11

1830-1902

German (Active in America) Hudson River School Painter

Albert Bierstadt, born in Solingen, Prussia, in 1830, found himself destined for a very different landscape than the one of his early years. When his family emigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1832, Bierstadt was just two years old. The town, with its whaling ships and sea air, might have shaped a life bound to the ocean, but Bierstadt's gaze was always drawn toward the distant and the monumental. He would not just paint the world - he would offer America a vision of its untamed West, filled with majesty and grandeur.

Largely self-taught, Bierstadt started his career teaching drawing in New Bedford in 1850. But his ambitions reached far beyond his modest beginnings. In 1853, he set off for Europe, hoping to study under Johann Peter Hasenclever, a distant relative. Fate, however, intervened; Hasenclever died before Bierstadt's arrival. Undeterred, Bierstadt found mentorship under American artists Emanuel Leutze and Worthington Whittredge, who introduced him to the Dusseldorf school of painting - a revelation that would forever shape his approach to landscape art.

By the time he returned to America in 1857, Bierstadt had shed his provincial awkwardness and returned as a polished artist with a deep understanding of European techniques. His first major success came just a year later in New York, where his depiction of Lake Lucerne captivated critics, earning him honorary membership in the National Academy of Design. But the European Alps were just the beginning for Bierstadt - his heart, and his legacy, would be forged in the rugged beauty of the American West.

In 1859, Bierstadt joined Frederick W. Lander's expedition to the Rocky Mountains. This journey, with its vast open skies and towering peaks, gave Bierstadt the subject matter that would define his career. His ability to capture the sublimity of these landscapes - to paint them not just as they were, but as they were felt in the imaginations of those who would never see them - earned him immediate acclaim. His painting "The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak" became a sensation, setting him apart as the foremost painter of the American wilderness.

But Bierstadt was more than just a painter of mountains. He was a man who embraced the spirit of exploration, traveling to Yosemite, Oregon, and beyond, always seeking new vistas to capture. He would later take his talents back across the Atlantic, where, in 1867, he exhibited privately for Queen Victoria herself - a remarkable achievement for an artist who had started out teaching drawing in a small New England town.

Yet, as the years passed, Bierstadt’s star began to fade. Critics grew tired of what they saw as the "theatrics" of his large-scale works, preferring instead the more subdued styles of the late 19th century. His 1889 painting "The Last of the Buffalo" was rejected by the American committee for the Exposition Universelle in Paris, a harsh blow to an artist who had once been celebrated for his grand visions of the West.

By the time of his death in 1902, Bierstadt had fallen into relative obscurity. However, the tides of art history are ever-changing. Interest in his work was revived in the 1960s, not for his monumental canvases but for the small oil sketches he used as color studies - intimate glimpses into the mind of a man who, for a brief moment, painted America’s wildest dreams.

260 Bierstadt Paintings

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California, 1868 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California 1868

Oil Painting
$3821
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: BAL-3334
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 183 x 305 cm
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, USA

Yosemite Valley, c.1863/75 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Yosemite Valley c.1863/75

Oil Painting
$3547
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: BAL-3335
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 92 x 132.7 cm
The Haggin Museum, California, USA

Moose, After 1880 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Moose After 1880

Oil Painting
$3048
SKU: BAL-3336
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: unknown
The Haggin Museum, California, USA

Kern River Valley California, 1871 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Kern River Valley California 1871

Oil Painting
$3364
SKU: BAL-4961
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: unknown
Private Collection

Landscape, 1899 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Landscape 1899

Oil Painting
$1436
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: BAL-4962
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 34.6 x 47.3 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

The Buffalo Trail, 1869 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

The Buffalo Trail 1869

Oil Painting
$3786
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: BAL-4963
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 81 x 122 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA

Valley of the Yosemite, 1864 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Valley of the Yosemite 1864

Oil Painting
$1666
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: BAL-4964
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 30.1 x 48.9 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak 1863

Oil Painting
$5585
Canvas Print
$76.65
SKU: BAL-4965
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 186.7 x 306.7 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Mountain Brook, 1863 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Mountain Brook 1863

Oil Painting
$5160
Canvas Print
$62.45
SKU: BAL-4966
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 111.8 x 91.4 cm
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sunlight and Shadow, 1862 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Sunlight and Shadow 1862

Oil Painting
$5667
Canvas Print
$63.43
SKU: BAL-4967
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 105.4 x 90.2 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA

Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains, 1859 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains 1859

Oil Painting
$2576
Canvas Print
$81.52
SKU: BAL-4968
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 48.6 x 74 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA

View from the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming, 1860 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

View from the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming 1860

Oil Painting
$5312
SKU: BAL-4972
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 76.2 x 123.5 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA

Storm in the Mountains, c.1870 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Storm in the Mountains c.1870

Oil Painting
$4471
SKU: BAL-4973
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 96.5 x 152.7 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA

Yosemite Falls, c.1863 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Yosemite Falls c.1863

Oil Painting
$1583
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: BAL-4974
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 48.3 x 35.6 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA

Ruins of Paestum, 1858 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Ruins of Paestum 1858

Oil Painting
$2902
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: BAL-4975
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 54.6 x 90.5 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

River Scene, 1858 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

River Scene 1858

Oil Painting
$1240
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: BAL-4976
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 14 x 23.5 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA

Roman Fish Market, Arch of Octavius, 1858 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Roman Fish Market, Arch of Octavius 1858

Oil Painting
$8777
Canvas Print
$56.86
SKU: BAL-4977
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 70.2 x 94.9 cm
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California, USA

Fishing Boats at Capri, 1857 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Fishing Boats at Capri 1857

Oil Painting
$2367
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: BAL-4978
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 33.9 x 49.8 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA

Fir Trees and Storm Clouds, c.1870 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Fir Trees and Storm Clouds c.1870

Oil Painting
$1635
Canvas Print
$50.70
SKU: BAL-4979
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 35 x 47 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

The Matterhorn, c.1867 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

The Matterhorn c.1867

Oil Painting
$2506
Canvas Print
$55.75
SKU: BAL-4980
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 54.6 x 75 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

Yosemite Valley, 1866 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Yosemite Valley 1866

Oil Painting
$4974
Canvas Print
$51.97
SKU: BAL-4981
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 97 x 142.3 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

Lake Tahoe, California, 1867 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Lake Tahoe, California 1867

Oil Painting
$2242
Canvas Print
$56.02
SKU: BAL-4982
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 55.5 x 76.2 cm
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts, USA

Mount Vesuvius at Midnight, 1868 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Mount Vesuvius at Midnight 1868

Oil Painting
$3048
Canvas Print
$54.07
SKU: BAL-4983
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 42.6 x 60.7 cm
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA

The Merced River in Yosemite, 1868 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

The Merced River in Yosemite 1868

Oil Painting
$3320
Canvas Print
$63.85
SKU: BAL-4984
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 74.3 x 61.1 cm
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota, USA

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