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Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Rocky Mountain Landscape, 1870, White House, Washington, D.C. 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. [4]
Albert Bierstadt, portrait by Napoleon Sarony. Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) was a German-born American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West.
Among the Sierra Nevada was created in Rome in winter 1867–68, four years after Bierstadt's trip to the Sierra Nevada. [4] [5] The painting measures 72 by 120 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (183 by 305 cm) and has an elaborate frame measuring 96 + 1 ⁄ 4 by 144 + 3 ⁄ 8 by 7 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (244 by 367 by 18 cm).
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie is an 1866 landscape oil painting by German-American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830–1902) which was inspired by sketches created on an 1863 expedition. Bierstadt traveled to the Colorado Rocky Mountains where he was taken up to the Chicago Lakes beneath Mount Blue Sky .
Done in oil on canvas and depicting the famous Matterhorn, the painting was produced during one of Bierstadt's numerous trips to Switzerland between the years 1867 and 1897. The painting is currently in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art .
The goal of the G59 was to promote Swiss horticulture and give young people an understanding of horticulture and landscape architecture. The G59 was set up based on the structure of the German horticulture expositions, which advocated for profession and the reconstruction of cities destroyed in World War II , and of the “Landi”, the Swiss ...
Founded in 1854, the Department of Architecture (D-ARCH) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland is an architecture school in Zürich, providing education in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design.
The Stahl House, Case Study House #22. The Case Study Houses were experiments in American residential architecture sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, which commissioned major architects of the day to design and build inexpensive and efficient model homes for the United States residential housing boom caused by the end of World War II and the return of millions of soldiers.