Hi, my name is Harrison and today I am going introduce you to Albert Bierstadt and his beautiful landscape work. He was born in 1830 and even though he was born in Germany, he grew up here in America.

He loved painting landscapes. He studied art in Germany in his early 20’s, and there he learned some very traditional and romantic painting methods. After four years he came back to America and sold his first large scale painting to the Boston Athenaeum, which made him well known. The painting was called Portico of Octavia Rome.

Then he joined an overland survey expedition which allowed him to travel westward across the country.

He e took countless photographs and made sketches of the majestic mountain ranges and dramatic rock formations which became massive canvasses painted in his New York studio.

He painted romanticism paintings.
He loves to paint mountains, but he also has amazing wilderness images.

His paintings of Yellowstone Park were used by Congress to convince the congressmen to vote the area into a National Park.

He painted more than 4000 paintings in his life.

He also went to the Hudson River School that believed that art could be a medium of spiritual nature. Alberts style is Romanticism the way he strokes his brush with so much detail that the human eye can barely see any mistakes in his paintings. When there are none. This is also known as stylistic rubie.

I picked focusing on Albert because I love to make landscapes myself. His work has so much realism in them.

He loves to use mountains in his paintings and so do I. I love the way you can make dimensions in landscapes, for example the mountains pop out and the clouds float.

There are a lot of things in landscape art that you can do with light and with shading.

Experimenting with that is fun, and Albert did an amazing job on this elements. I hope you enjoyed learning about Albert.