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SCHREYER, ADOLF (1828-1899)

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SCHREYER, ADOLF (1828-1899) , See also:German painter, was See also:born at See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main, and studied See also:art first at the Staedel See also:Institute in his native See also:town, and then at See also:Stuttgart, See also:Munich, and See also:Dusseldorf; but he formed his See also:style in See also:Paris, whilst he found hisfavourite subjects in his travels in the See also:East. He first accompanied See also:Prince Thurn and Taxis through See also:Hungary, Wallachia, See also:Russia and See also:Turkey; then, in 1854, he followed the See also:Austrian See also:army across the Wallachian frontier. In 1856 he went to See also:Egypt and See also:Syria, and in 1861 to See also:Algiers. In 1862 he settled in Paris, but returned to See also:Germany in 187o; and settled at Cronberg near Frankfort, where he died in 1899. Schreyer was, and is still, especially esteemed as a painter of horses, of See also:peasant See also:life in Wallachia and See also:Moldavia, and of See also:battle incidents. His See also:work is remarkable for its excellent equine draughtsmanship, and for the artist's See also:power of observation and forceful statement; and has found particular favour among See also:French and See also:American collectors. Of his battle-pictures there are two at the See also:Schwerin See also:Gallery, and others in the collection of See also:Count Mensdorff-Pouilly and in the See also:Raven Gallery, See also:Berlin. His See also:painting of a " See also:Charge of See also:Artillery of Imperial Guard " was formerly at the Luxembourg Museum. The See also:Metropolitan Museum, New See also:York, owns three of Schreyer's See also:oriental paintings: " Abandoned," " See also:Arabs on the See also:March " and " Arabs making a detour "; and many of his best pictures are in the See also:Rockefeller, See also:Vanderbilt, J. J. See also:Astor, W. Astor, A.

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Belmont, and W. Walters collections. At the Kunsthalle in See also:Hamburg is his " Wallachian Transport See also:Train," and at the Staedel Institute, Frankfort, are two of his Wallachian scenes.

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