The Rise and Fall of Albert Bierstadt: Artist-Priest of the Westt (ePub)
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The Rise and Fall of Albert Bierstadt: Art-Priest of the West (Revised), 117,000 words
This is the true story of Bierstadt's dramatic if not frantic and tragic life. He was the best known American landscape artist in the mid-1800s. Like many other artists of the Hudson River School (1840-1880) he did not commit to art until age 23. Then, in one decade, he became a top notch artist, studying at the artist's club in Dusseldorf, Germany, toured Europe, returned to become #1 artist in NYC, married his best friend's wife, and sold six-foot by ten-foot paintings for up to $30,000 each. (Close to $400,000 in today's terms)
The following decade, the gods deserted him. He cascaded downward until he died at age 72 in 1902. During his fall, he created a font-page scandal in NYC newspapers, lost his reputation and his income, then lost his mansion to fire that included hundreds of his paintings and a life's worth of western and Indian paraphernalia. Lastly, he lost his wife, the woman he loved intensely, to tuberculosis. It took her 17 years to die.
Sixty years after his death his major paintings recognized, reevaluated, and are now in more than 100 museums in America and in museums throughout Europe.
I've never been great at anything, but I have been around and have had as many failures as I have successes. After college, I was a C.I. agent for NATO (US Army) in Europe. Back in the USA, I became an educational administrator for the American Geological Institute, in Washington, D.C.; a systems analyst and V. P. at Levi Strauss & Co. in San Francisco; owner of a guest ranch in Wyoming; a P. R. writer for a university library in Illinois and grants writer for a not-for-profit organization in Montana; owner of a publishing company (Kingfisher Creations) through which I authored 10 books; and a semi-professional photographer for half a century. I have also been an artist since 1993 and I have been bipolar II since the mid-1960s. I guess you could say I have had a colorful life.
Since the turn of the century, I have resided within the world of creativity. My books (and paintings) are my children and my heritage. My action-mysteries are based on my years in Europe. My historical novels are all based on places to which I have ventured, and I still love my protagonists with whom I identify-a geologist, an artist, a photographer, and an intrepid explorer of the west.
- Autor: David M. Delo
- 2021, Englisch
- Verlag: Kingfisher Creations
- ISBN-10: 1393701736
- ISBN-13: 9781393701736
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.04.2021
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- Größe: 0.58 MB
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