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    Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter known for his grand landscapes of the American West, which he was able to paint after joining journeys of Westward Expansion. Though not the first to depict these scenes, he was the foremost painter of the American West in the 19th century. Bierstadt was born in Prussia but moved to the U.S. as a child, later returning to Germany to study painting before joining the Hudson River School in New York, known for their romantic, luminist landscapes along the Hudson River that influenced Bierstadt's own paintings of the Western frontier.

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    Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter known for his grand landscapes of the American West, which he was able to paint after joining journeys of Westward Expansion. Though not the first to depict these scenes, he was the foremost painter of the American West in the 19th century. Bierstadt was born in Prussia but moved to the U.S. as a child, later returning to Germany to study painting before joining the Hudson River School in New York, known for their romantic, luminist landscapes along the Hudson River that influenced Bierstadt's own paintings of the Western frontier.

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    Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter known for his grand landscapes of the American West, which he was able to paint after joining journeys of Westward Expansion. Though not the first to depict these scenes, he was the foremost painter of the American West in the 19th century. Bierstadt was born in Prussia but moved to the U.S. as a child, later returning to Germany to study painting before joining the Hudson River School in New York, known for their romantic, luminist landscapes along the Hudson River that influenced Bierstadt's own paintings of the Western frontier.

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    Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830 – February 18, 1902) was a German-American painter best

    known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. He joined several journeys of
    the Westward Expansion to paint the scenes. He was not the first artist to record the sites, but he
    was the foremost painter of them for the remainder of the 19th century.
    Bierstadt was born in Prussia, but his family moved to the United States when he was one year old.
    He returned to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf. He became part of the second
    generation of the Hudson River School in New York, an informal group of like-minded painters who
    started painting along the Hudson River. Their style was based on carefully detailed paintings
    with romantic, almost glowing lighting, sometimes called luminism. Bierstadt was an important
    interpreter of the western landscape, and he is also grouped with the Rocky Mountain School.[1]

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