Adolf Schreyer
Master of horses and Orientalist scenes
Adolf Schreyer was a German painter, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He studied art first at the Städel Institute in his native town, and then at Stuttgart and Munich. He painted many of his favourite subjects in his travels in the East. He first accompanied Maximilian Karl, 6th Prince of Thurn and Taxis through Hungary, Wallachia, Russia and Turkey; then, in 1854, he followed the Austrian army across the Wallachian frontier. In 1856 he went to Egypt and Syria, and in 1861 to Algiers. In 1862 he settled in Paris, but returned to Germany in 1870; and settled at Cronberg near Frankfurt, where he died. Schreyer was, and is still, especially esteemed as a painter of horses, of peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of battle incidents. His work is remarkable for its excellent equine draughtsmanship, and for the artist's power of observation and forceful statement; and has found particular favour among French and American collectors.
Artworks by this artist (51 total)
- An Arab horseman on the look-out
- Cavaliers
- An Ottoman encampment
- The Wallachian Team
- Geldings In A Winter Landscape
- Vieh- und Schafherde mit eselreitendem Hirtenknaben in weiter Landschaft
- Horsemen at a Well
- The Charge
- Arabs late 19th century
- Resting Cavaliers
- A Rider in a Landscape
- The Advance
- The Ambush
- The charge 1869
- Riders By An Oasis
- Wallachians On The Move In A Winter Landscape
- Arabische Reiter 1860-70
- The Pursuit
- Eastern Soldiers with a Horse Drinking
- Two Reclining Arabs and Two Tethered Horses