Today’s DPD is a painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902). While it isn’t directly of an Autumn theme, the colors most certainly make it suitable for the season.

Albert Bierstadt was born in Germany in 1830, but his family moved to American in 1833, when he was 3 years old. He returned to Dusseldorf, Germany, to study painting from 1853-1857. He returned to America, and went on to become foremost Victorian painter of Western (North American) landscapes. He was a member of an informal group of painters known as the “Hudson River School”, who specialized in detailed paintings infused with glowing light, a style otherwise known as luminism. Bierstadt died in 1902 in New York City, after painting more than 500 paintings (and perhaps as many as 4000!). Many of the 500 definitively attributed to him have survived.

Here is a link to the Wikipedia article on Bierstadt, where I got this information and where you can get more information on him if you like.

This painting is called “Sundown at Yosemite”. You can clearly see why the style was termed luminism, as the painting positively glows. Click on it to see it / download it full-sized.

"Sundown at Yosemite", painted by Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902).

Peace,

Bekka

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