Albert Bierstadt was internationally renowned for his captivating and enormous paintings. They consisted of a wide variety of terrain that can be found all over the world. He was one of the most admired and recognized American artists of his time. His artwork stood at the top of the American art market, where his paintings brought record high prices. In his lifetime Bierstadt enjoyed tremendous success and recognition. He is accredited for painting as many as four thousand paintings in his lifetime, most of which have survived to this day. Through his love of paintings and landscapes Bierstadt illustrated the serenity and power of the late nineteenth-century landscapes of the world.
Throughout his numerous masterpieces, Bierstadt focused on imitationalism, or realism. He wanted to create a work of art that accurately reflected what he saw in the unblemished nineteenth century world. Throughout his artworks he accomplished his goals in capturing the serenity and delicacy that can only be found in nature. In his artworks he demonstrates his love for the gentle glow of sunlight through luminism, a style of landscape painting that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light. Through this …show more content…
When he was only two years old he immigrated with his family to New Bedford in Massachusetts so that his father could work as a barrel maker. In 1853, Bierstadt returned to Germany to enroll in Düsseldorf Art Academy. There he developed his artistic passion and skill while painting the Alpine landscapes. This is also where he met the acclaimed American artists Leutze, T. Worthington Whittredge, William Stanley Haseltine, and Sanford Robinson Gifford. While Bierstadt was a member of this group, he traveled throughout Europe sketching and painting Europe’s majestic