Bierstadt Paintings

Albert Bierstadt paintings can be found today in most major art galleries and museums around the United States. Bierstadt's 19th century landscape paintings, which may number as many as 4,000 have become very popular within America as art lovers flock to home-grown art of that period. Whilst sharing dual nationality with Germany, it is here that his legacy was laid. This article uncovers details on this famous American artist and offers some of his best paintings for study.

Bierstadt received his original training from the Dusseldorf School. Bierstadt starred in the Hudson River School, one of North America's best known art schools. The products of this school were often referred to as Luminism, with an air of Romanticism entering their landscape paintings. Indeed the glow and emotion almost gave a religious feel to their works at times. Bierstadt himself was also known to the Rocky Mountain School as well, although they were lesser known.

Famous paintings by Bierstadt included Storm in the Rocky Mountains (Mount Rosa), Looking Down Yosemite Valley, Alaskan Coast Range, San Francisco Bay, Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevadas, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, Gosnold at Cuttyhunk and Indian Canoe.

In conclusion, Bierstadt is a key American-German artist from the Hudson River School who produced highly respected landscape paintings of North America, and is well worth studying for an understanding of the development of American art. Mount Bierstadt in Colorado was named after the great artist who brought landscape art to many North Americans. Fans of Bierstadt regularly buy reproductions of his work today as handmade paintings or prints, and much of his work is still on show dotted across the galleries of Cleveland, Seattle, New York, Boston, Vermont and beyond. His popularity remains predominantly in these areas, with Europeans aware of his work but often preferring their own impressionist and romanticist artists. Of the many artists that he has influenced, William Bliss Baker is perhaps the best known.