Although born in Germany Albert was raised in American he immigrated
to American at the tender age of 1 years old. He studied painting in Dusseeldorf Germany where
he was exposed to the European romantic school of landscape painting. His
application of Romanticism to the vistas of the American West won him
both critical and financial success. He exhibited two landscapes in a private
reception with Queen Victoria
in 1867.
He made his first trip to the American West by accompanying
a US
land surveyor. He used the sketches he made during that trip to produce numerous
large paintings. This pattern created the Modus
operandi for the rest of his life; accompanying the great Western expeditions of the post Civil
War period followed by several years of painting.
The paintings he produced from his 1871 expedition to Yellowstone convinced the United States Congress to pass
the Yellowstone Park Bill in 1872 establishing the first national park in the
world.
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