Ganet e oa bet d'ar 7 a viz Genver 1830 e Solingen (Rheinprovinz e Prusia d'ar mare-se), mab da Heinrich Bierstadt, ur barazher, hag e bried Christina Tillmans. E 1831 e tivroas an tiegezh da SUA d'en em staliañ e Bedford, e Massachusetts[1]
En e vugaleaj dija e tiskouezas bout donezonet evit an tresañ ha dedennet gant an arzoù. E 1851, oadet a 21 vloaz, e krogas da livañ taolennoù gant eoul war lien. Daou vloaz diwezhatoc'h, e 1853, e tistroas da Brusia ma chomas da studiañ al livouriezh gant izili an Düsseldorfer Malerschule, Skol livouriezh Düsseldorf, ma voe souezhet o kavout sikour digant livourien stadunanat, en o zouez Worthington Whittredge (1820-1910) eus an Hudson River School. Goude tri bloavezh e skol Düsseldorf ec'h eas gant W. Whittredge da dresañ e Prusia, e Suis hag en Italia a-raok distreiñ da Vedford e 1857. Eno e kelennas an tresañ hag al livañ e-pad ur prantad berr kent mont da livour a vicher[2].
E 1858 e lakaas un daolenn vras, a ziskoueze un dremmvro e Suis, en National Academy of Design (NAD) e New York ; kerkent e voe degemeret da geneil an Akademiezh[2]. Da heul izili an Hudson River School e redas bro evit livañ dindan an amzer e traoñienn an Hudson hag e New England.
Bloaz goude, pa voe kaset ar jeneral Lander gant ar Gouarnamant da gornaoueg Norzhamerika, ec'h eas A. Bierstadt gantañ evit kavout gweledvaoù nevez da lakaat war al lien ; gant ar Menezioù Roc'hellek hag ar Sierra Nevada e voe awenet an arzour yaouank. Goude e zistro da New York e livas meur a daolenn diwar an tresadennoù niverus en devoa graet e-kerzh e veaj. E 1860, oadet a 30 vloaz, e voe dilennet da ezel an NAD.
Kenderc'hel da livañ kornaoueg Amerika diwar e zielloù a eure : e 1861 e tiskouezas Laramie Peak, ha View of the Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak e 1863. Brud bras a c'hounezas gant an div daolenn-se, ken e voe medalennet en Aostria, e Bavaria, e Belgia hag e Prusia, hag enoret ent-ofisiel e Bro-C'hall, e Rusia hag e Turkia[3].
E 1859 e tistroas A. Bierstadt da gornaoueg Amerika a-gevret gant ar skrivagner Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1797-1867). E-pad seizh sizhun e chomas e Yosemite Valley, e Kalifornia. A-hed ar bloavezhioù 1860 ec'h implijas an tresadennoù en devoa graet eno evit livañ taolennoù bras-divent. A-c'houde e veajoù gant Lander ha Ludlow e voe lakaet d'ar gwellañ livour a-fed gweledvaoù ar Wild West[2].
D'an 12 a viz Ebrel1861 e tarzhas ar Brezel diabarzh. E 1861 end-eeun e voe galvet d'ur prantad stummadur milourel e Camp Cameron e North Cambridge, e Massachusetts ; goude-se e livas Guerrilla Warfare, Civil War (1862) diwar ul luc'hskeudenn bet kemeret gant e vreur Edward. E 1863 e voe galvet en-dro, met goprañ un den all evit monet d'ar brezel en e lec'h a eure.
Guerrilla Warfare, Civil War, 1862
E 1867, daou vloaz goude diwezh ar Brezel diabarzh, e tistroas al livour da Europa. Pan erruas e Londrez e lakaas div zaolenn war ziskouez en un degemer prevez gant ar rouanez Victoria[2]. E-pad daou vloaz goude-se e veajas dre Europa ; e Roma e gwirionez e livas Among the Sierra Nevada, California e 1868, a ziskouezas e Berlin hag e London kent he c'has da SUA dre vordreizher.
Daoust dezhañ bezañ en estrenvro e chomas brudet en SUA. Goude e daolennoù awenet gant Yosemite Valley e voe pedet da ambroug ergerzherien er C'hornôg ; gant kompagnunezhioù hent-houarn e voe pedet ivez, da livañ ar Grand Canyon hag e drowardroioù[4].
Pa voe taget e wreg gant an dorzhellegezh e 1876 e tremenas A. Bierstadt kalz amzer ganti e Nassau, e Bahamas, betek he zremenvan e 1893 ; e-keit-se e kendalc'he da veajiñ e kornôg Amerika hag e Kanada ha da livañ en e studio e New York[2], a voe distrujet gant un tan-gwall e 1882, ha kalz taolennoù ivez[5].
D'an 18 a viz C'hwevrer 1902 e varvas Albert Bierstadt e New York, oadet a 72 vloaz. Beziet e voe e New Bedford, e Massachussets[6]
Ur 500 taolenn bennak zo bet livet gant A. Bierstad, a reas berzh bras a-hed e remzad. Da zeiz e dremenvan avat e oa aet giz ar gweledvaoù meur da get a-werso. Peuzdisoñjet e voe e oberennoù betek ar bloavezhioù 1960, pa voe lakaet lod eus e daolennoù-studi war ziskouez[2].
Setu amañ ul listenn eus an oberennoù diwar zorn Albert Bierstadt hag a zo deuet betek ennomp.
Deiziadet
Peuznes eo lod deiziadoù.
1853 : Majesty of the Mountains
1854 : Scene in Tyrol
1855 : A Rustic Mill Farm • Study of a Ewe • Sunshine and Shadow • The Old Mill (Scene in Westphalia) • The Portico of Octavia• Westphalia
1856 : European Landscape • Italian Costume Studies • Olevano
1857 : Fishing Boats at Capri • Gathering Storm • Grey Tempest (White Mountains, New Hampshire) • Lake at Franconia Notch, White Mountains • Martha Simon, Last of the Narragansetts • On the Beach at Capri • Study in Grey (New England, White Mountains)
1858 : Bison • Gosnold at Cuttyhunk, 1602 • Grove of Trees • Indian Camp • Lake Lucerne • Portico of Octavia, Rome • Study of a Brown Horse
1859 : Approaching Storm • Beached Ship • Covered Wagons • Indians near Fort Laramie • Nooning on the Platte, N.D. • Surveyor's Wagon in the Rockies • Swiss Mountain Scene • The Black Horse • The Trout Brook • The Wolf River, Kansas • Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains • View Near Newport
1860 : View of Chimney Rock, Ohalilah Sioux Village in the Foreground • River Estuary • View from the Wind River Mountains, Wyoming
1861 : A Wilderness Lake (Echo Lake, Franconia Mountains, NH) • Emigrants Resting at Sunset • Italian Coastal View • Sunset Light, Wind River Range of the Rocky Mountains • The Brothers' Burial (The Brother's Burial) • The Trappers' Camp • Wasatch Mountains, Wind River Country, Wyoming
1862 : Ascutney Mountain from Claremont, New Hampshire • Guerrilla Warfare, Civil War • Indians Spear Fishing • Morning in the Rocky Mountains • Sunlight and Shadow • View of Moat Mountain, Intervale, New Hampshire • Yosemite Valley, Glacier Point Trail
1863 : Campfire • Cloud Effect, Estes Park, Colorado • Great Salt Lake, Utah • In the Rockies (Indians on Horseback) • Lake in the Yosemite Valley • Lake Tahoe, California • Looking up the Yosemite Valley • Mountain Brook • Mountain Lake[7] • On the Merced River • On the Platte River, Nebraska • Sundown at Yosemite • The Oregon Trail Campfire • The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (div gentel) • White Horse and Sunset
1864 : Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall • Mirror Lake, Yosemite Valley • Mountain and River Scene • Night at Valley View (Moonlight on the Merced) • Study of a Tree • Valley of the Yosemite (div gentel)
1865 : Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California • The Sierras near Lake Tahoe, California
1866 : A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie • In the Yosemite Valley • Merced River, Yosemite Valley
1866-1870 : On the Hudson River Near Irvington
1867 : Lake Tahoe, California • Snow Scene with Buffalo • The Domes of the Yosemite • The Yosemite Valley
1868 : Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California • Connecticut River Valley, Claremont, New Hampshire • In the Sierras (Lake Tahoe) • Landscape • Sunset in the Yosemite Valley • Yosemite Valley
1869 : Emigrants Crossing the Plains (The Oregon Trail) • Falls of Niagara from Below • Ferns and Rocks on an Embankment • Glen Ellis Falls • Niagara Falls • Niagara from the American Side • The Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm • The Coming Storm • Western Landscape
1870 : Evening on the Prairie • Laramie Peak • Passing Storm over the Sierra Nevada • Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast • Sierra Nevada Morning • Storm in the Mountains • Sunrise, Yosemite Valley • The Emerald Pool
1871 : California – Indian Camp: Scene near Mariposa • Dawn at Donner Lake, California • Domes of Yosemite • Mountainous Landscape by Moonlight • Owens Valley, South Sierra • Rainbow in the Sierra Nevada • San Francisco Bay • Sierra Nevada • View of Donner Lake, California
1872 : California Redwoods • Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley • Farallon Islands • Farralones Islands, Pacific Ocean • In the Valley of the Yosemite • Indians in Council, California • ILake Tahoe • Mount Brewer from King's River Canyon • Seals on the Rocks, Farallon Islands • Seal Rock, California • Seal Rocks, Farallones • Seal Rock, Farallon Islands • Sunrise in the Sierras • The Grizzly Giant Sequoia, Mariposa Grove, California (Redwood Trees) • Yosemite Winter Scene
1873 : Autumn in the Sierras • Seal Rocks, Farallon Islands •
1874 : Giant Redwood Trees of California
1875 : A View from Sacramento • Bay of Monterey • Buffalo Country • California Spring • Dogwood • Evening on Oneida Lake • Expedition under Vizcaino Landing at Monterey 1601 • Forest Monarchs • Mount Adams, Washington • Mount Corcoran • Sacramento Valley in Spring • San Rafael, California • Sunrise on the Matterhorn • The Discovery of the Hudson
1876 : Banana Trees • The Ambush • Rocky Mountains, Colorado
1877 : Mount Whitney • Sail Boats • Street in Nassau • The Rocky Mountains, Longs Peak
1878 : After a Norther, Bahamas
1879 : A Rocky Mountain Sheep, Ovis, Montana
1880 : By a Mountain Lake • Moose Hunters' Camp, Nova Scotia • Palm Trees with a Domed Church • The Falls of St. Anthony • Weeping Oaks, Clear Creek • West Indies Coast Scene
1881 : Geyser, Yellowstone Park • Lower Yellow Stone Falls • Old Faithful (div gentel) • Saint Lawrence River from the Citadel, Quebec
1882 : Gates of the Yosemite
1885 : Moose in a Forest Glen
1886 : Autumn Woods, Oneida County, New York • Indian Canoe • Interior of a Library, Minneapolis • Storm on the Matterhorn
1887 : Nassau Harbor • The Wave (The Surf ; The Turquoise Sea)
1888 : Buffalo Hunter • Canoes • Sketch for "The Last of the Buffalo" • Study for "The Last of the Buffalo" • The Last of the Buffalo
1889 : Alaska • Alaskan Coast Range • Princess Louisa Inlet, British Columbia • Mount Sir Donald, Asulkan Glacier • Rocky Mountains in the Selkirk Range, near the Canadian Border, Mount Sir Donald • Sailboats on the Hudson at Irvington • Sunrise at Glacier Station • Wreck of the "Ancon," Loring Bay, Alaska
1890 : Canadian Rockies • Encampment in the Rockies • Mt. Baker from the Fraser River
1891 : In the Yosemite Valley • Island of New Providence • Mount Baker, Washington
1892 : Butterfly • The Landing of Columbus
1893 : The Landing of Columbus at San Salvador
1895 : The Morteratsch Glacier, Upper Engadine Valley, Pontresina
1898 : Yosemite Valley
1900 : The Golden Gate
Hep deiziad
A Quiet Cove • A Strike – Salmon Fishing, Cascapedia River, Canada • Autumn in New Hampshire • Blue and White Cloud • Boston Harbor at Night • Brook in Woods • Canyon and River • Cloud Study • Elk • Finsterhorn • Fishing from a Canoe • Florida Scene • Hetch Hetchy Cañon, California • Home of the Rainbow, Horseshoe Falls, Niagara • Iceberg • Indian Sunset: Deer by a Lake • Irvington Woods • Lakeshore Landscape • Lander's Peak, Wyoming • Landscape (div daolenn) • Lower Yosemite Valley • Mountain Landscape with Sunset • Mountain Landscape • Mountain Scene • Mountain Study • Mt. Hood, Oregon • Niagara from the American Side • Ox • Pioneers of the Woods, California • Redwood Trees • Rocky Mountain Landscape • Rocky Mountains • Sailboats on the Hudson River • Seals on the California Coast • Shady Pool White Mountains New Hampshire • Spur at the Edge at Sunset, Grindewald • Sunrise in the Hetch Hetchy Valley, California • Sunset near the Platte River (Salt Lick at Sunset Glow) • Sunset on the Plains • Sunset – Last Reflections – Cloud Study • Teton Range, Moose, Wyoming • The Blue Grotto, Capri • The Buffalo Trail • The Conflagration • The Hetch Hetchy Valley, California (div gentel) • The High Sierras • The Iceberg • The Pacific Coast (The Bay of San Francisco) • The Rocky Mountains • The Snow Mountain • The Trappers, Lake Tahoe • Tropical Landscape with Fishing Boats in Bay • Two Horses • View of Oakland • View of the Wetterhorn from Grindelwald • Wasatch Mountains, Utah • Waterfall Landscape • Waterfall [Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota] • Western Lake • Wooded Hillside • Woodland Sunset • Yosemite Falls (div gentel) • Yosemite Valley • Yosemite Valley (div gentel) • Yosemite
Ur sell war remzad Albert Bierstadt
Scene in the Tyrol, 1854
The Old Mill (Scene in Westphalia), 1855
Italian Costume Studies, 1856
Martha Simon, Last of the Narragansetts, 1857
Portico of Octavia, Rome, 1858
Beached Ship', 1859
View of Chimney Rock Ogalillalh Sioux Village in Foreground, 1860
The Trappers' Camp, 1861
Indians Spear Fishing, 1862
On the Platte River, Nebraska, 1863
Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall, 1864
Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California, 1865
Merced River, Yosemite Valley, 1866
The Domes of the Yosemite, 1867
In the Sierras (Lake Tahoe), 1868
The Buffalo Trail: The Impending Storm, 1869
Storm in the Mountains, 1870
Sierra Nevada, 1871
Seal Rocks, Farallones, 1872
Autumn in the Sierras, 1873
Giant Redwood Trees of California, 1874
California Spring, 1875
Banana Trees, 1876
Street in Nassau, 1877
A Rocky Mountain Sheep, Ovis, Montana, 1879
The Falls of St. Anthony, 1880
Old Faithful, 1881
Gates of the Yosemite, 1882
Moose in a Forest Glen, 1885
Autumn Woods, Oneida County, New York, 1886
The Wave (The Surf ; The Turquoise Sea), 1887
The Last of the Buffalo, 1888
Wreck of the "Ancon," Loring Bay, Alaska, 1890
Island of New Providence, 1891
The Landing of Columbus at San Salvador, 1893
The Morteratsch Glacier, Upper Engadine Valley, Pontresina, 1895
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