Giant Redwood Trees of California by Albert Bierstadt - Nature and All Its Glory

Giant Redwood Trees of California

Giant Redwood Trees of California c1874 by American Painter Albert Bierstadt (1830 – 1902);; was a Prussian born German American who was part of the Hudson River School Movement, known for his lavish sweeping landscapes of the American West.

This is a beautiful wooded scene of native Americans sitting by an embankment in the California Redwood Forest as water flows from a high point in the terrain filling up pond and flowing out at a low point to other areas of the landscape.

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On the embankment we see two men conversing, while a women that is carrying a basket on her back walks toward the direction where the men are; and in the hollow of a large Redwood we see another women weaving something in the shadows as it appears that the sun is setting.

The scene is also populated with boulders, rocks, smaller trees, bushes, grass and various plants and we can see a camp fire that is burning in the middle of a clearing as smokes rises from it.

Giant Redwood Trees of California is a retouched digital art old masters reproduction of a public domain image that is available for purchase as a canvas print online.

Info Below Derived From Wikipedia.org

Albert Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany, the son of Christina M. (Tillmans) and Henry Bierstadt, a cooper; his brother was prominent photographer Edward Bierstadt.

Albert was just one year old, when his family immigrated to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1831. Early in his youth he showed a talent and taste for creating clever crayon sketches.

At the age of 21, Albert began to paint in oils and in 1853 he returned to Germany and began studying painting for several years in Düsseldorf; with members of its informal school of painting.

Then in 1857 he returned to New Bedford Massachusetts, where he taught drawing and painting briefly before devoting himself full-time to painting, and taking several journeys of the Westward Expansion to paint scenes of the exploit.

Though other artist had done the same recording the sites of their adventure, Bierstadt was the most prominent painter among them, and remained so for the rest of the 19th century, with imagery like the Sierra Nevada.

In 1858, Bierstadt exhibited a large painting of a Swiss landscape at the National Academy of Design, which gained him positive critical reception and honorary membership in the Academy.

Bierstadt began painting scenes in New England and upstate New York, including in the Hudson River valley. He was part of a group of artists known as the Hudson River School.

In 1859, Bierstadt traveled westward in the company of Frederick W. Lander, a land surveyor for the U.S. government, to see those western American landscapes for his work.

He returned to a studio he had taken at the Tenth Street Studio Building in New York with sketches for numerous paintings he then finished. In 1860, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Design; he received medals in Austria, Bavaria, Belgium, and Germany.

In 1863, Bierstadt traveled West again, this time in the company of the author Fitz Hugh Ludlow, whose wife he later married. The pair spent seven weeks in the Yosemite Valley.

Throughout the 1860s, Bierstadt used studies from this trip as the source for large-scale paintings for exhibition and he continued to visit the American West throughout his career.

The immense canvases he produced after his trips with Lander and Ludlow established him as the preeminent painter of the western American landscape.

Bierstadt’s technical proficiency proficiency (which can be seen in the Sierra Nevada), earned through his study of European landscape, was crucial to his success as a painter of the American West and accounted for his popularity in disseminating views of the Rocky Mountains to those who had not seen them.