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    Linger Within his Landscapes: The Magic of Albert Bierstadt

    By David M. Delo

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    The life of Albert Bierstadt is the story of a talented, "larger-than-life artist" who appeared out of nowhere, rose to the top of the art world in New York City, then crashed and burned because he lost his way to earthly glamour. At age twenty-one, he traveled to Dusseldorf, Germany, and in a single decade was trained as an artist, returned home, rose to the top, and became the highest-paid and most controversial landscape artist in America. Before that 1850s decade closed, he had explored the Rocky Mountains and sold astonishing western landscapes for up to $15,000 each. At his peak, he sold 6' x 10' drawing room paintings for up to $30,000, stole his friend's wife, and became a "bourgeois." His name was more familiar then the President's. Then the art world began to change in the early 1870s. Unable to change with it, Bierstadt lost everything: income, reputation, his mansion with hundreds of his paintings to fire, and, over a seventeen-year period, his wife to tuberculosis. This is a historically-accurate, enthralling historical biography who found his niche as the Hudson River School of art made its debut in America.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid M. Delo
    Release dateNov 1, 2018
    ISBN9780463459928
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    Linger Within his Landscapes: The Magic of Albert Bierstadt
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    David M. Delo

    Bio of author David M. Delo 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.

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