Artist
Albert Bierstadt
born Solingen, Germany 1830-died New York City 1902

- Born
- Solingen, Germany
- Active in
- California, United States
- Irvington, New York, United States
- Biography
Born in Germany. Immigrated to the United States as a child. Paintings show an idealistic view of the American wilderness.
Nora Panzer, ed. Celebrate America in Poetry and Art (New York and Washington, D.C.: Hyperion Paperbacks for Children in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994)
Works by this artist (625 items)
Exhibitions
July 14, 2011–January 8, 2012
The exhibition The Great American Hall of Wonders examines the nineteenth-century American belief that the people of the United States shared a special genius for innovation.
May 14, 2021–July 11, 2021
Alexander von Humboldt and the United States: Art, Nature, and Culture reveals how the influential naturalist and explorer shaped American perceptions of nature and the way American cultural identity became grounded in our relationship with the e