Albert Bierstadt

Friday, January 01, 1858

Albert Bierstadt was born in Germany in 1830 and immigrated with his family to the United States in 1831. Bierstadt was a painter who produced large-scale landscapes and panoramic scenes of the American West. In 1858, Bierstadt made his debut in New York at the National Academy of Design with a painting of Lake Lucerne and the Swiss Alps.