Portrait of Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt Painting Reproductions 11 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

Scenery in the Grand Tetons, c.1865/70 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Scenery in the Grand Tetons c.1865/70

Oil Painting
$1447
Canvas Print
$50.45
SKU: BAL-19318
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 75 x 111 cm
Public Collection

Cliff House & Bay of San Francisco, n.d. by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Cliff House & Bay of San Francisco n.d.

Oil Painting
$1153
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19319
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 44.2 x 75 cm
Public Collection

The Matterhorn, n.d. by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

The Matterhorn n.d.

Oil Painting
$2714
Canvas Print
$51.52
SKU: BAL-19320
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 100.5 x 70 cm
Public Collection

Lake Tahoe, 1872 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Lake Tahoe 1872

Oil Painting
$875
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19321
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 34 x 48 cm
Amon Carter Museum, Texas, USA

Alaska, 1889 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Alaska 1889

Oil Painting
$704
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19322
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 35.5 x 50.8 cm
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, USA

Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas, 1870 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas 1870

Oil Painting
$4000
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19323
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 92.7 x 139.7 cm
San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas, USA

Woodland Pool, c.1870 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Woodland Pool c.1870

Oil Painting
$1637
Canvas Print
$53.41
SKU: BAL-19637
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 91.4 x 66 cm
Private Collection

South Dome, Yosemite Valley, California, 1867 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

South Dome, Yosemite Valley, California 1867

Oil Painting
$1421
Canvas Print
$53.28
SKU: BAL-19638
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 66 x 48.3 cm
Private Collection

Mount Hood, Columbia River, 1870 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Mount Hood, Columbia River 1870

Oil Painting
$1210
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19639
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 36.2 x 59 cm
Private Collection

In the Yosemite, n.d. by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

In the Yosemite n.d.

Oil Painting
$1139
Canvas Print
$53.96
SKU: BAL-19640
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 48.3 x 66 cm
Private Collection

Mount Baker, Washington, c.1890 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Mount Baker, Washington c.1890

Oil Painting
$708
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19641
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 35.6 x 48.3 cm
Private Collection

Italian Valley, 1860 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Italian Valley 1860

Oil Painting
$2017
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19642
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 56 x 91.4 cm
Private Collection

Capri, 1857 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Capri 1857

Oil Painting
$1000
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19643
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 48.3 x 30.5 cm
Private Collection

Twilight, Lake Tahoe, c.1870 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Twilight, Lake Tahoe c.1870

Oil Painting
$2128
Canvas Print
$51.52
SKU: BAL-19644
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 92.7 x 133.4 cm
Private Collection

Lake Lucerne, 1857 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Lake Lucerne 1857

Oil Painting
$1289
Canvas Print
$49.37
SKU: BAL-19645
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 41.2 x 61 cm
Private Collection

Mount Hood, Oregon, 1860s by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Mount Hood, Oregon 1860s

Oil Painting
$1530
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19646
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 89 x 152.4 cm
Private Collection

Alpine Scene, n.d. by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Alpine Scene n.d.

Oil Painting
$1175
Canvas Print
$53.69
SKU: BAL-19647
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 58.4 x 42.5 cm
Private Collection

Icebergs, c.1883 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Icebergs c.1883

Oil Painting
$612
Canvas Print
$50.98
SKU: BAL-19648
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 45 x 65 cm
Private Collection

View on the Hudson, 1870 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

View on the Hudson 1870

Oil Painting
$1119
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19649
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 35.6 x 50.8 cm
Private Collection

Pass into the Rockies, c.1881 by Bierstadt | Painting Reproduction

Pass into the Rockies c.1881

Oil Painting
$860
Canvas Print
$48.95
SKU: BAL-19650
Albert Bierstadt
Original Size: 50.8 x 35.6 cm
Private Collection

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