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ID: 500001248
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500001248
 
Record Type: Person
Bierstadt, Albert (American painter, 1830-1902)

Note: Bierstadt was one of the most important landscape painters of the American West, producing large, romantic canvases of the Rocky Mountains, the Yosemite Valley, and the Native American tribes of the West. He also owned a successful photography business with his brothers, Charles and Edward, that operated in New York City from 1860 to 1866. Comment on works: Landscapes

Names:
Bierstadt, Albert (preferred,V,index,LC,Dutch-P,NA)
Albert Bierstadt (V,display)
Bierstadt (LU,U)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
German

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
photographer
landscapist
draftsman
scenographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Solingen (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)
Died:  Irving (Chautauqua county, New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
partner of ....  Bierstadt, Charles  
..................  (American photographer, 1819-1903) [500034010]
partner of ....  Bierstadt, Edward  
..................  (American photographer, 1824 - ca. 1907) [500034011]
sibling of ....  Bierstadt, Charles  
..................  (American photographer, 1819-1903) [500034010]
sibling of ....  Bierstadt, Edward  
..................  (American photographer, 1824 - ca. 1907) [500034011]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Bierstadt, Albert (I)

Biographies:
(American painter, 1830-1902) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(American, 1830-1902) ..... [GRLPA]
(American painter, 1830-1902) ..... [PROV]
(American artist, 1830-1902) ..... [WCP]
(American artist, 1830-1902) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1830-1902) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American painter, 1830-1902) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist, 1830-1902) ..... [GRL]
(American artist, 1830-1902) ..... [PROV]
(American artist) ..... [PROV]
(German photographer, 1830-1902) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Albert Bierstadt ........ [PROV, VP]
..................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
..................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Bierstadt ........ [PROV]
.....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Bierstadt, Albert ........ [BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
....................................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 50011230
....................................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
....................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
....................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 8201
....................................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................................  Witt Library, Authority files

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, GRLPA, Grove Art, PROV, RKD, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
....................  Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n50011230
....................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
....................  Grove Art artist database (1989-)
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n50011230
....................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 8201
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Who Was Who in American Art (1985)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q77132
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
.......... Who's Who in American Art, 23rd ed. (1999-2000) 313
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