Minneapolis Institute of Art

Landscape

Albert Bierstadt

Date

c. 1890

Medium

Oil on millboard mounted on canvas

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Albert Bierstadt was a key figure of the Hudson River school, a group of painters who depicted the American landscape with a sense of discovery and awe. His work fits into the 19th-century artistic movement known as Romanticism, which emphasized emotion. Many of Bierstadt’s luminous landscape paintings were inspired by his trips to rugged places like the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada, and Yosemite Valley. The sketches he made on site became the basis for grand, majestic paintings. Landscape displays Bierstadt’s capabilities as a naturalistic, detail-oriented painter. United States, Americas

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