Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West. Born on January 7, 1830 in Solingen, Prussia, Bierstadt's family immigrated to ...

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You try to take in the expanse of the landscape and the sweep of the sky, the jagged rock faces and pounding cataracts, the otherworldly light and unearthly shadows. But they confound rational ...