Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt (7 Januari 1830 – 18 Februari 1902) adalah seorang pelukis Jerman-Amerika yang terkenal karena pemandangannya yang mewah dan luas di Amerika Barat. Dia bergabung dengan beberapa perjalanan Ekspansi ke Barat untuk melukis pemandangan. Dia bukan seniman pertama yang merekam situs-situs tersebut, tetapi dia adalah pelukis terkemuka di sana selama sisa abad ke-19.

Albert Bierstadt
Albert Bierstadt by Napoleon Sarony
Lahir	(1830-01-07)7 Januari 1830 Solingen, Rhine Province, Jerman
Meninggal	18 Februari 1902(1902-02-18) (umur 72) New York City, A.S.
Kebangsaan	Amerika
Pendidikan	Düsseldorf School
Dikenal atas	Painting
Gerakan politik	Hudson River School

Bierstadt lahir di Prusia, tetapi keluarganya pindah ke Amerika Serikat ketika dia berusia satu tahun. Ia kembali belajar melukis selama beberapa tahun di Düsseldorf. Ia menjadi bagian dari generasi kedua Hudson River School di New York, kelompok informal pelukis yang berpikiran sama yang mulai melukis di sepanjang Hudson River. Gaya mereka didasarkan pada lukisan yang sangat detail dengan romantis, pencahayaan yang hampir bersinar, terkadang disebut luminisme. Bierstadt adalah penafsir penting dari lanskap barat, dan dia juga dikelompokkan dengan Sekolah Rocky Mountain.

Galeri

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  Roman Fish Market. Arch of Octavius. De Young Museum, San Francisco, California
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  Guerilla Warfare, Civil War by Albert Bierstadt, 1862, Century Association, New York, NY
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  Staubbach Falls, Near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, 1865
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  Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Park, c. 1868, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
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  Storm in the Mountains, c. 1870, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
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  Mount Adams, Washington, 1875, Princeton University Art Museum
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  Mount Corcoran, c. 1876–77, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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  Gosnold at Cuttyhunk (c. 1858), New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA
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  The Marina Piccola, Capri (1859), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
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  Indians Spear Fishing, 1862
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  The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (1863), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York
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  Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California (1865), Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
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  Lake Tahoe (1868), Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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  Sierra Nevada (c. 1871–1873), Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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  Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mount Rosalie (1866), Brooklyn Museum, New York
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  California Spring, 1875, De Young Museum, San Francisco, California
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  Light in the Forest, unknown date
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  Valley of the Yosemite, 1864, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  Sunrise on the Matterhorn, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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  Estes Park, Long's Peak, 1877, Denver Art Museum (on loan from the Denver Public Library)
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  Emerald Sea (or The Shore of the Turquoise Sea), 1878, Manoogian Collection, Detroit, U.S.
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  Giant Redwood Trees of California, 1874, Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts, United States.

Bacaan lebih lanjut

• Anderson, Nancy K. et al. Albert Bierstadt, Art & Enterprise, New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990.
• Barringer, Tim and Wilton, Andrew. American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820–1880, Princeton University Press, 2002. ISBN 0-691-09670-8.
• Hendricks, Gordon. Albert Bierstadt, Painter of the American West, New York: Harrison House/Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1988.
• American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1987. ISBN 9780870994968. 
• Miller, Angela. "Albert Bierstadt, Landscape Aesthetics, and the Meanings of the West in the Civil War Era". Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 27, no. 1 (Terrain of Freedom: American Art and the Civil War) (2001): 40–59 and 101–102. DOI:10.2307/4102838. JSTOR 4102838.

Pranala luar

• Karya oleh/tentang Albert Bierstadt di Internet Archive (pencarian dioptimalkan untuk situs non-Beta)
• Albert Bierstadt (albertbierstadt.org)
• Albert Bierstadt Paintings at fineartamerica.com
• White Mountain paintings by Albert Bierstadt
• A finding aid to the Albert Bierstadt letter collection, 1880–1893 in the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• "Against His Grain: Albert Bierstadt's 'Clouds Over the Prairie'" MONA Moment, Museum of Nebraska Art
• Gallery of Bierstadt's Paintings Diarsipkan 2021-01-26 di Wayback Machine.
• The Winterthur Library—Overview of an archival collection on Albert Bierstadt.
• Albert Bierstadt Paintings Gallery—345 images online
• Albert Bierstadt's Biography at The R.W. Norton Art Gallery
• "'Giant Redwood Trees' will fall at Berkshire Museum despite interpretive value", The Berkshire Eagle, June 30, 2018
• Albert Bierstadt, WikiArt
• (Inggris) Albert Bierstadt di Find a Grave