Hiroshige
(b 1797, Edo [Tokyo], Japan ; d Oct. 12, 1858, Edo)
In full Ando Hiroshige, professional names Utagawa Hiroshige and Ichiyusai
Hiroshige, original name Ando Tokutarō Japanese artist, one of the last great
ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”) masters of the colour wood-block
print. His genius for landscape compositions was first recognized in the West by
the Impressionists and Postimpressionists. His print series “Fifty-three
Stations on the Tokaido” (1833–34) is perhaps his finest achievement.
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Albert
Bierstadt
(b Solingen, Germany, 7 Jan 1830; d
New York, 18 Feb 1902).
American painter of German birth. In a career spanning the entire second
half of the 19th century, he emerged as the first technically
sophisticated artist to travel to the Far West of America, adapt
European and Hudson River School prototypes to a new landscape and
produce paintings powerful in their nationalistic and religious
symbolism.
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