12 Works, Today, January 7th is Albert Bierstadt’s day, his story illustrated #007
Jan 8, 2021
Study for “The Last of the Buffalo”, circa 1888
Oil on canvas
Height: 62.9 cm (24.7 in); Width: 91.1 cm (35.8 in)
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 — February 18, 1902) was born in Prussia, but his family moved to the United States when he was one year old. In 1851, Bierstadt returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf. He became part of the second generation of the Hudson River School in New York, painters who started painting along the Hudson River. Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. Bierstadt was an important interpreter of the western landscape, and he is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School…