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| The eldest brother of painter Albert Bierstadt and Edward, a photographer, he came to America with his parents and brothers from Solingen, Germany in 1832. The family settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and early on, Charles worked with his father in the woodworking business.
After Albert Bierstadt returned from his first painting trip West in 1859, he helped his brothers get established in a photography business in New Bedford, and "the following summer they issued a catalogue combining Albert's western stereographs with other photographs taken in and around New Bedford and in the White Mountains." (Hendricks, 93) Apparently Albert had spent part of that summer with his brothers in the White Mountains, and made sketches for paintings and helped select sites for photographs.
In 1867, Charles Bierstadt moved to Niagara Falls, New York and worked independently, and Edward moved to New York where he had a photoreproduction business. In 1865, he and Albert issued a catalogue of nineteen Civil War related stereographs including a photograph of Abraham Lincoln in Washington DC.
In 1870, Charles went to California, where he took photos of Yosemite.
In 1876, he won a prize for his photographs at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, and in 1884, Underwood & Underwood became sole U.S. agents for Charles’s stereoviews.
Sources:
Gordon Hendricks, Albert Bierstadt, Painter of the American West
Peter Hastings Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
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