Albert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his grandiose landscapes of the 19th-century American West ... Germany to gain deeper knowledge and skill of painting, returning to the ...

click image for close-up John Lewis Krimmel's Pepper-Pot: A Scene in the Philadelphia Market was one of four paintings shown by the young German artist ... Well into the 19th century, genre ...

Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) is probably the most notable of the 19th century German Romantic artists (even if you’re ...