- Adolf Schreyer
Adolf Schreyer (1828-1899), German painter, was born at
Frankfurt-am-Main .He studied
art first at the Städel Institute in his native town, and then atStuttgart andMunich . He painted many of his favourite subjects in his travels in the East. He first accompanied PrinceThurn and Taxis throughHungary ,Wallachia ,Russia andTurkey ; then, in 1854, he followed theAustria n army across the Wallachian frontier. In 1856 he went toEgypt andSyria , and in 1861 toAlgiers . In 1862 he settled inParis , but returned to Germany in 1870; and settled atCronberg near Frankfurt, where he died.Schreyer was, and is still, especially esteemed as a painter ofhorse s, ofpeasant life in Wallachia andMoldavia , 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. Of his battle-pictures there are two at theSchwerin Gallery , and others in the collection of CountMensdorff-Pouilly and in theRaven Gallery, Berlin . His painting of a "Charge of Artillery of Imperial Guard" was formerly at theLuxembourg Museum . TheMetropolitan Museum, New York owns three of Schreyer'soriental paintings: "Abandoned", "Arabs on the March" and "Arabs making a detour"; and many of his best pictures are in theRockefeller family ,Vanderbilt family ,John Jacob Astor ,William Backhouse Astor, Sr. ,August Belmont , andWilliam Walters collections. At theKunsthalle inHamburg is his "Wallachian Transport Train", and at the Staedel Institute, Frankfort, are two of his Wallachian scenes.References
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