Albert Bierstadt - The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

"The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Crest" by Prince Albert Bierstadt

"The Stony Mountains, Lander's Peak" by Albert Bierstadt is based on sketches made during Bierstadt's travels in 1859. The painting shows Lander's Blossom in the Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains, with an tenting of Native Americans in the foreground.

Bierstadt depicts a band of Shoshone Native peoples along with the majestic peaks. His focus was on the relationship of the people with the landscape.

The Shoshone are a Native American tribe, which originated in the western Great Basin and spread North and east into present-day Idaho and Wyoming.

As more European-American settlers migrated west, tensions rose with the indigenous people over competition for territory and resources. Wars occurred throughout the second half of the 19th century.

Lander's Peak

The composition shows Lander's Peak, a mountain with a crown of 10,456 feet (3,187 m) in the Wind River Zero in contemporary Wyoming. After Lander died in the Civil War, the peak was titled later on Frederick W. Lander on Bierstadt's initiative.

The landscape in the painting is non the actual landscape painting equally it appears at Lander's Peak, but rather an ideal landscape based connected nature, altered by Bierstadt for dramatic impression.

The Homegrown Americans in the spotlight gave the setting authenticity and presented information technology equally an environment untouched by Europeans.

Bierstadt showed the grandeur and beauty of the nation's western wilderness. It also referenced the idea of Manifest Portion, where the Rocky Mountains represented both natural beauty and an obstruction to westward expansion.

Shoshone Native peoples

Bierstadt illustrated the Shoshone citizenry and the majestic peaks with a center happening their relationship with the landscape.

The Shoshone are a Native American kin group that originated in the western Great Basin and overspread north and east into current Idaho and Wyoming.

In 1859, Eastern Shoshone peoples were rich in the region right away called Western Wyoming.

Bierstadt commented happening the Shoshone people he saw:

"The manners and customs of the Indians are still as they were hundreds of days ago, and straightaway is the time to paint them, for they are rapidly passing away, and soon will beryllium known only in history."

The Shoshone people are depicted on a similar level as the geography and natural features, with Bierstadt attempting to trance an image of them, which he believes essential be preserved as a part of history.

As Thomas More European-American settlers migrated west, tensions rose with the indigenous hoi polloi over competition for territory and resources.

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

  • Title:                   The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak
  • Artist:                 Albert Bierstadt
  • Year:                  1863
  • Average:            Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions       Stature: 186.7 cm (73.5 in); Width: 306.7 centimetre (10 ft)
  • Movement:       Hudson School
  • Category:          American Artist
  • Museum:           Metropolitan Museum of Art

Albert Bierstadt

Albert Bierstadt (1830 – 1902) was a painter of sweeping landscapes of the Solid ground West. He joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes.

Bierstadt was born in Prussia, but his family moved to the United States when He was 1. He returned to Europe to analyze painting for several days in Düsseldorf.

Helium became part of the second multiplication of the Romantic realism in New York, an informal group of look-alike-minded painters WHO started painting along the Hudson River.

Bierstadt was a critical voic of the western landscape, and he is besides grouped with the Rocky Wads School.

Prince Albert Bierstadt

  • Artist:                Albert Bierstadt
  • Born:                 1830, Solingen, Rhine Province, Prussia
  • Died:                 1902 (aged 72), New York
  • Nationality:       American
  • Notable works:
    • The Falls of St. Anthony
    • Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California
    • Alaskan Coastal Range
    • The Rockies, Lander's Efflorescence
    • North Fork of the Platte NE

Prince Albert Bierstadt – Terra firma Paintings

A Tour of Washington, D.C. Museums

  • National Gallery of Art
  • Nationalist Museum of American History
  • National Melodic phrase and Space Museum
  • National Museum of African-American History and Culture
  • National Museum of Natural History
  • Status Portrait Drift
  • Smithsonian American Artwork Museum
  • The Phillips Assemblage
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • Internationalist Spy Museum
  • National Museum of Women in the Humanities
  • U.S. government Holocaust Monument Museum

American Landscape: Albert Bierstadt and the American English Land

Albert Bierstadt Follows the Sun

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"The best material for the artist in the world."
– Albert Bierstadt

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Photo Deferred payment: 1) Albert Bierstadt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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