Bierstadt

American  

[beer-stat, beer-shtaht] / ˈbɪər stæt, ˈbir ʃtɑt /

noun

1. Albert 1830–1902, U.S. painter, born in Germany.

2. Mount, a mountain in N central Colorado, in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. 14,060 feet (4,286 meters).

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Example Sentences

But she finds these sublime, monumental scenes of pristine wilderness by artists like Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt and Asher B. Durand to be as problematic as they are inspirational.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2023

This image of Christopher Columbus making landfall in the New World was painted by the German American artist Albert Bierstadt at the end of the nineteenth century.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

Image: Microsoft Bierstadt by Steve Mattison is inspired by mid-20th-century Swiss typography.

From The Verge • Apr. 28, 2021

But other 19th-century American painters working in the grand manner included Thomas Cole, who created cinematic cycles of symbolic paintings, and Albert Bierstadt, who painted epic and aggrandizing landscapes of the American West.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2020

"An Indian in a canoe, � la Brush; or a bear coming down to drink, � la Bierstadt," suggested Parker.

From The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Garland, Hamlin