[2] In 1880 Albert moved to St. Louis to take up a position as the resident art director and scenic designer at Pope's Theatre.
[7] Albert's initial work in the firm was as designer for the Grand Opera House and Olympia Theatre in St.
[11] In 1889 he had a major critical triumph at the Grand Opera House with his sets for the premiere of Clay M. Greene's Blue Beard, Jr.;[12][13] a production which toured nationally including stops at Boston's Tremont Theatre (1889)[14] and Broadway's Niblo's Garden (1890).
[17][18] In 1890 he designed the sets for the West End revival of Watts Phillips' The Dead Heart at the Lyceum Theatre, London.
[19] He designed sets for two touring plays which starred the actor William H. Crane in the early 1890s: David D. Lloyd and Sydney Rosenfeld's The Senator and Augustus Thomas's For Money.
[1] Albert returned to New York City, and began a prolific career as a scenic designer for Broadway productions with Victorien Sardou's 1894 play Gismonda.
In 1899 he designed the sets for the theatre troop of the Rogers Brothers; including the play A Reign of Terror by playwright John J. McNally (1852–1931).
[22] In 1916 Albert moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, and the last 30 years of his life were spent dedicated almost entirely to landscape painting; a pursuit he had begun earlier around the turn of the century.