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Albert Bierstadt

Westphalian Landscape, 1856

Description

Maker

  • Albert Bierstadt, 1830-1902, American

Title

Westphalian Landscape

Year

1856

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

61 x 76.8 cm (24 x 30 5/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed LL:A. Bierdstadt, 1856

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Gift of Miss Ellen D. Sharpe

Object Number

40.188

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection VII

American Painting from the Museum's Collection, c.1800-1930

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Making It In America

October 11, 2013 - February 9, 2014

In this view of rural Germany, Bierstadt evokes the sensation of soft mist rising from fields on a summer morning. Accurate draftsmanship and “truthful” rendering of natural forms were stressed in the art academies and studios of Düsseldorf, a city that attracted Bierstadt and other young American painters in the 1850s. Bierstadt applied these skills in his early artistic practice, gathering sources for his paintings by carefully sketching local activity and dress and noting distinctive effects of atmosphere and light. In later years, he applied the same acute observation to monumental renderings of the American West.

After Eden

April 26 - December 29, 1996

From the Reserve IV

July 22 - October 2, 1994

Romanticism and Revival

December 4, 1992 - June 26, 1993

Selection VII

March 31 - May 8, 1977

To Look on Nature

February 3 - March 5, 1972

Days Gone By

July 1 - September 26, 1971

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