Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) (183 works)

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At the age of two, he and his family emigrated to the United States, settling in New Bedford, Massachusetts

In 1853, Bierstadt went to Düsseldorf in order to expand his artistic education, where he completed it at the local academy.
While abroad, Bierstadt traveled along the Rhine, in the Alps and in Italy, often in the company of Whittredge, Sanford Gifford and William Stanley Haseltine.
He returned to New Bedford in the fall of 1857.

Upon returning to New Bedford, he quickly became the city's most prominent artist.

The following year, for the first time, he took an active part in organizing the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design, where he exhibited his 15 paintings, which attracted everyone's attention and were warmly received by the public.

Thanks to this, he became famous in America

In April 1859, he accompanied Colonel Frederick Lander on his surveying expedition, across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains to the Pacific coast.

During the expedition he made many drawings and daguerreotypes, which he later used as templates for creating his landscapes.