Early Life, Family and Training Albert Bierstadt was born on January 7, 1830, in Solingen, Rhine Province, Prussia, Germany. He was the son of Henry Bierstadt, a cooper, and Christina M. (Tillmans) Bierstadt. His brothers, Edward and Charles, grew up alongside him in a household that moved across the Atlantic when Albert was only a year old. By 1831, the family had settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In those early years, he spent h…