Bierstadt
Americannoun
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Albert 1830–1902, U.S. painter, born in Germany.
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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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Like Bierstadt, Church was not just stoking patriotic fervor, but also evoking divine providence as favoring the North’s cause.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
I visited the Haggin recently and was awed by grand 19th-century oil paintings of Yosemite Valley by Albert Bierstadt.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
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
Many of the earlier pictures could have been made in the 19th century, when such painters as Albert Bierstadt were wowing gallery-goers with epic vistas of the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2021
Arriving at Oak Grove ranch, Mr. Bierstadt and his traveling companion, a Mr. Dunlap, correspondent of the New York Post, decided to stop a few days and have a buffalo hunt.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
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