Albert Bierstadt

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The Falls of St. Anthony is an 1880 oil landscape painting by the Hudson River School artist Albert Bierstadt. Saint Anthony Falls, located on the Mississippi River next to what is now downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, was the only major waterfall on the Mississippi River until its replacement by locks and dams in the early 20th century.

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Albert Bierstadt (January 7, 1830, February 18, 1902) was a German-American artist best known for his monumental landscapes that glorified the American West. Bierstadt was born in Solingen, Germany and emigrated with his family to New Bedford, Massachusetts at age two. In 1853, Bierstadt traveled to Germany to study painting for several years in Düsseldorf.