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Dr. Dr. habil. Karin Thieme

 

Ever since mankind has visual arts,

artists grappled with the presentation of the horse.

The early cave drawings

in the south of France and Spain are eloquent testimony to this.

So the horse Accomanied the man through the millenia.

His appreciationchanged from a hunted animal

to a hunting and love especially comrade,

from the utility to the sports and entertainment object.

 

 

Adolf Schreyer

Arab with horse

 

Of all artistically presented breeds

the Arabian horse has besondersfasziniert the artists.

Ever since Islam began its triumphal march in the 7th century,

East and West came together in contact,

found beauty and hardness of the Arab in Europe many lovers.

 

 

Docherst in the aftermath of the victory of Prince Eugene of Savoy

over the Turks at Vienna found

in the 17th increasingly and 18th centuries

artistic representations noble oriental horses.

 

 

Your Abbilderentsprechen indeed rather the then prevailing taste,

the quiet the baroque breeds Lipizzaners or Andalusian embody.

 

 

Representations of Arabian horses from this period stopped far show

the attributes in the outer appearance of the race,

you so much underestimated since the 19th century.

 

 

 

But let pictures of Rubens' "Lion Hunt"

or Ridingers magnificent etchings with the tittle Empire guess. 

 

 

In the 18th century the English painter and starts

 

 

Graphic artist George Stubbs

 

 

with the realistic, anatomically accurate representation of the horse in art.

 

 

He is the first artist to character and personality

represent an animal is capable of

inspired by Both the inner and the outer desPferdes values.

 

 

With him, the animal Becomes the focus, not the decorative accessories.

Quite particularly, this aspect comes in stunning portrait

Lord Gro of 1765 to fruition.

 

 

But it only what the 19th century left a

the unparalleled. The campaign of the young general Napoleon Bonaparte in the years 1798/99 to wealth of images created with Arabian horses,

Egypt made the noble horses of the East the epitome of nobility and beauty,

Tempering e and endurance.

 

 

The romantic and orientalist currents succeeded

always take the pure-blooded Arabs Wiederin Their image issues.

 

 

The Orient wurde fashionable direction. Opulence, eroticism and sensuality,

But violence and barbarism so were the Mittelp

oft unilateral artistic representation.

 

 

The turn of the 19th century so Brought

the highest appreciation for the Arabian horse.

m viewer models did breed standards satisfy even today afford.

 

 

At the beginning of several generations of painters Antoine Baron Gros is,

of the young Bonaparte had Accompanied to Egypt.

 

 

Gros' pictures were inspiration for many of his contemporaries and the start of Orientalism

is inseparable from the romanticized presentation of the horse.

 

 

In the 19th century is the circle of breeders of Arabian horses

so designated as the circle of artists who have accepted of him.

The establishment of major stud farms and lineage if indiese time.

The Arab Thoroughbred what Mount and jewelry

the great rulers and generals.

 

 

In addition, the advent of lithography, the so-called lithography Allows,

the prevalence beliebterorientalischer topics and horse representations. 

 

 

 


Carle Vernet:

Mameluck de Retraite (aquatint 1819).

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As one of the first artists has

 

 

Carle Vernet

 

 

already prescribed in 1815 this new technology.

The Arabian horse is to

His Mamelukenhengste sparkle with irritation and elegance.

In her hysteria are always in action, barely complete rest or relaxation.

There are slender, wild swashbuckling horse of exuberant temperament.

 

 

Carle Vernet Arabian thoroughbreds are the highest standard.

most horses representations of the time can be Measured in them.

 

 

Vernet was a valued and contemporary artists in Paris in the empire.

Age of Napoleon what the pretended the royalists Vernet his subjects.

Widespread found his horses pictures but before the invention of lithography.

 

 

Many of his proposals were etched in aquatint or razor stipple.

In addition to the representations of racing scenes from a time

in Pferderennenzum make pastime were

or his famous hunting leaves are Repeatedly Arabian horses,

the viewer so here encounter. 

 

 

 

   Carle Vernet

 

 

The painters dynasty of Vernet what with Carles son

 

          Horace Vernet ,

 

born in the revolutionary year of 1789, continued.

As a painter Napoleonic battles he made the Emperor immortal.

 

The Arab horse stallions Napoleon and his contemporaries

seem to come to life in his paintings.

 

 

But the processing of silky fur Lends his horse paintings

at almost dreidimensionalenEindruck.

The highly regarded painter of battles had learned from his father the horse painting.

 

 

In addition, he what One of Those painters,

the extended Orient travel to Algeria, Palestine, Egypt, Syria

and Carried out in Turkey.

 

 

Horace Vernet was so his models in Their natural habitat study.

 

 

HOWEVER, the Romantic movement which him far from touching to the extent

As They had been taken Generally art in French,

Mainly by Théodore Géricault, one of the best friends Horace Vernet.

 

 

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     Horace Vernet

 

 

As Horace Vernet so took

 

Théodore Géricault

 

 

his artistic beginnings in the studio Carle Vernet.

His early drawings can not be denied this influence.

 

In the artistic development Géricault were horses

but increasingly powerful and more powerful.

 

 

Unlike Carle Vernet, the master of elegant thoroughbred horse,

Géricault remains unmatched in the lasting impression of unbridled  power of his horses, gemäß to his own temperament as to expression of romance.

 

 

By Géricault  the artists lithography Reaches its first climax in France.

Among his finest lithographs  is among the sheet "An Arabian Horse"

from the famous English series of the 1821st

 

 

Inspired by Baron  Gros and Géricault's romantic passion

Finally, the Orientalism in France reached its  peak in Eugène Delacroix.

Delacroix's trips to North Africa characterize his oeuvre Entire.

 

 

Its  Moorish princes, sultans and pashas,

mounted on powerful Arab thoroughbreds, put the counter point to classicism.

 

 

Besides the two Vernet, the

 

 

Romantics Géricault and Delacroix

 

 

and a number of Orientalists are Mainly three other painters from France to call, Which We now Numerous representations owe Arabian horses:

 

 

Victor Adam, Hippolyte Lalaisse and Alfred De Dreux .

 

 

Their elegant, impeccably built horses delight the eye of every connoisseur.

Due to its contacts in France

portrayed in this time the Polish national painter Juliusz Kossak

Arabian horses of the highest nobility in stimulating watercolors.

 

 

His depictions of the founders horses Polish National breedings

 are each connoisseurs a term.  

 

 


Victor Adam: Dahmani.

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 Hippolyte Lalaisse:

Cheval Arabe (lithograph circa 1850).

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,, born in Paris in 1801

 

 

Victor Adam

 

 

already joined the Academy of Art at age 13th

 

 

Despite the Preferred presentation dramatic

Scenes of hunting, battles and bullfights Treated Victor Adam

the Arabian horse very loving.

 

As of authority in the representation of the precious horse

and its typical drawing style accordingly, it displays it in almost exaggerated,

yes romanticized way.

 

 

The romance in France to win the

Phenomenon of Animals idiosyncratic forms Increased from

The horse Appears pronounced as carriers of positive characteristics examined generosity and strength, sensitivity and passion.

 

Victor Adams Arabs possess a unique type,

dry heads with unusually large eyes,

totally rounded in shape and appearance.

 

 

Adam is the Arab thoroughbred as a mount of the Nobles,

the generals and rulers,

So but in the portrait of important breeding and gift horses. 

 

 

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Victor Adam

 

 

Another representative of classical painting horses

 

 

Hippolyte Lalaisse ,

 

 

who was born in 1812 in Nancy.

As with his contemporaries soaked in his pictures the classical ideal of an Increasing realism.

 

Lalaisse 'strength lies grunätzlich the graphics area.

 

 

He illustrated among other things, with 68 panels

the extensive work "La Connaissance Générale du Cheval" (1861) and "Atlas Statistique de la Production des Chevaux en France".

 

Lalaisse are 'For a friend of Arabian horses

oft subtle old colored lithographs particularly collectible.

 

 

He oft portrayed stallions and mares,

from the East to France to improve Remontezucht

and have been used in the newly created Anglo-Arabian breed.

 

 

Alfred De Dreux,

 

 

 

Born in Paris in 1810, grew up in artistic circles.

As a man of the world he loved fine horses and the elegant life.

He Quickly Became the preferred painter of the rich bourgeoisie.

 

 

In his paintings with oriental themes De Dreux shows

the viewer most noble Arabian horses, oft Accompanied By Nubian

The artist himself was an excellent rider.

 

 

He painted horses as in the Transfiguration of the 19th century,

culminating the Übersteigerun g m hey it watchful eye,

short and pointed ears, slender heads, riders and grooms.

 

These pictures reflect the exoticism and color of an oriental world again,

beautifully curved necks and silky coat.

 

 

Full of fire, power and violence They are active and alert,

gorgeous rounded in Their overall appearance.

 

 

By several  travel n to England found De Dreux so

Access to the work of the great English painter of the Victorian period,

Sir Edwin Landseer, the famous painting "The Bedouin Tent"

at Arabian mare and foal and Saluqis in a Bedouin tent,

each Arabs enthusiasts is a term.

 

 

There was , HOWEVER, one of the few oriental-style images,

bequeathed the Landseer posterity.

 

 

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Alfred De Dreux

 

 

The English animal painting and in Particular the "Sporting Art"

Their devoted pictorial themes again and again the Arabian horse.

 

In the late 19th century, For Example, paints

 

 

     Harington Bird

 

 

his famous watercolors of Arabian horses, mostly in oriental surroundings.

 

Henry Alken Sr. and John Frederick Herring Sr.

painting and drawing out of her wonderful

Working English racing and hunting horses always Exemplary Arabian thoroughbreds.

 

 

The English direction of Orientalism culminates in

 

 

John Frederick Herring

 

 

monumental "Overland Route" from 1855th

Especially Queen Victoria, it is thanks to

did Herring's paintings are Widely used today,

she what the biggest supporter of his painting.

 

 

Even a great lover of the Arabian horse breed,

she settled on Their favorite painters Herring and Landseer always on a noble steed, mostly of Arab gray stallion, portray.

 

 

In Herring's paintings oft encountered the Arabian stallion

Imaum from the possession of the artist.

 

 

Besides his great caravan to Giza he painted

several compelling portraits of Arabian horses in oriental landscape.

 

 

The reproductive prints of his "Pharaoh's Favorites" graced

THIS countless living rooms and across the Atlantic.

 

 

John Frederick Herring Sr. what Considered the best English horse painter of his time.

With this reputation he stands next to the great George Stubbs in the 18th century.

 

 

His sons inherited his artistic legacy

and Carried out the reputation of the family to continue into this century.

 

 

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   Harrington Bird

 

 

Henry Alken Sr. ,

 

 

      born in 1785,

posterity is best known as the "Sporting Artist".

But it is therefore one  of Those artists,

Whose work in the Arabian horse occupies a significant place.

 

Alken what  Primarily a draftsman and graphic artist.

 

 

Many of its leaves are as Weichgrundätzungen

which published in the 20s of the 19th century.

The age of 16, he presented the young artist in London's Royal Academy.

 

 

From his travels in the Middle East Alken Brought impressive,

slightly colored watercolors, where a secure line is based.

 

 

He is a skilled observer of the costumes,

the riding toy, the different types of horses.

 

 

In the horse painting of the 19th century in Germany

dedicated to all the painter dynasties of the representation of Arabian horses.

 

Above all, it is the Adams in Munich.

 

 

Albrecht Adam,

 

 

born in 1786 in Nördlingen, and painted his sons

the Arabs of kings and nobility.

 

His portraits of the legendary Hamlet

Founder stallion Bairactar among the most beautiful horses representations at all.

 

 

They made him immortal in Arab circles.

Bairactar as the epitome of the classic asil Arabian horse

is the highest breeding potency and effectiveness

Today model and standard of international breeding.

 

 

Albrecht Adam used the graphic techniques of wide dissemination of his works.

He made full lithographic Consequences on behalf of noble stud owner,

love especially desKönigs of Württemberg.

 

 

So he immortalized many import Arabs

in his own studio or against the backdrop of the Munich Marstall.

 

 

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Albrecht Adam

 

 

Emil Volkers,

 

 

born in 1831, is one of the horse painters,

the Arab thoroughbreds highest standard slideshow.

As a friend of Adam family Volkers had a studio under the umbrella of "Adamei"

the living and studio complex of Adams. The realistic representation of horses prescribed Volkers operational extensive anatomy studies.

 

 

Another Albrecht Adam student who was born in 1829 Theodor Horschelt,

So portrayed a series of royal stud horses.

 

 

He therefore traveled to North Africa, love especially Algeria.

These trips were his inspiration for many oriental image issues.

 

 

Horschelt advanced to a main Representatives of Orientalism in Germany.

Similar to Alken he made On These trips many sketches and studies for nature.

The award-winning artist

Academician what in Munich, Vienna and St. Petersburg.

 

 

In addition to Adams in Munich Documented

love especially the Familied he Württemberg Faber du Faur the time of Napoleon.

 

 

General Wilhelm von Faber du Faur Accompanied the Emperor

on his destructive campaign in Russia.

 

 

The painting General left a b eachtliche yield

representations of military cavalry,

So Repeatedly shows Napoleon Arabian horse stallions.

 

 

 

 

 

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Emil Volkers

 

 

Funded by at eight-year stay in Paris,

where he is in contact with the leading artists of his time came,

wurde a born in Frankfurt in 1828

 

 

     Adolph Schreyer

 

 

the leading Orientalists of his time in Germany.

Extensive travels led Schreyer in the south of Russia,

Wallachia and Turkey.

 

 

In 1861 he traveled to Algeria.

These trips the painter owes his good acquaintance with oriental, 

love especially Arabian horses.

 

 

Highly valued are his paintings of nature tab,

love especially the  nomads of North Africa.

 

 

Here parallels one of the leading Orientalists of France, 

his friend and colleague Eugene Fromentin.

 

 

How Fromentin Horses So are the Schreyer  marked by great elegance, full of spirited and large largest activity.

 

 

When looking at his  pictures one can almost snorting of Their nostrils

and the crunching chewing on the curb  to hear.

 

 

Adolf Schreyer's innovative painting style makes his paintings

Today at auctions fetch high prices. 

Especially in the US, the circle of collectors is large.

 

 

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Adolph Schreyer

 

 

It was Mainly the breeding influence of the King of Württemberg

and the establishment of the Stud of Weil,

The presentation of Arabian horses widespread into art

and in the procured hippo logical literature.

 

 

In the editions of Hunter and Schmidt / hill

illustrated the well-known artist

 

 

Friedrich Voltz, Julius Schnorr and Gottfried Küstner .

 

 

Finally, in 1846, in Stuttgart

on the occasion of the royal wedding of Prince Charles of Württemberg

and Grand Duchess Olga Nicolajewna "The Caroussel" listed

and as a graphic edition in 28 beautifully colored Lithographienpubliziert.

 

 

The artist Karl Kurtz and Johann Baptist Zwecker received

by Councilor Hackländer the   order to hold this outstanding "event" in pictures.

The "Caroussel", a friendly tournament   between East and West,

presented not only members of the German aristocracy,

but so the nobility of Arabian horses princes,

next to the famous Amurath 1829 eg Bairactar II, Soliman, Bagdadli or Cham. 

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Friedrich Voltz

 


It would be pointless to list all artists

Whose works and views of Arabian horses of importance  are.

Some important and well-known names Could be Mentioned.

 

 

In addition to painting and graphics, it is above  all, the sculpture of the 19th century,

All which is so important works on Arab horse  left.

 

 

The French "Animaliers", led by Antoine-Louis Barye and Pierre Jules Mène, created bronze sculptures did were found today in the art market becoming increasingly popular.

Many paintings, hand prints and printmaking leaves

as well as sculptures are part

private and public collections around the globe.

 

 

All synthesis works of art are On expression of indescribable fascination, 

the the Arabian horse on the people,

not only artists exercises and you hardly resist  can.

To date, this influence Continues to act in contemporary painting horses.

 

 

As before, the Arabian horse permitted as one of the finest of all creatures

a great artistic variation.

 

 

 

Inquiries about "Arabian Horse in Art"

(Old, modern and contemporary art;

Paintings, graphics, bronzes) Should be Addressed to:

Dr. Dr. habil. Karin Thieme, Nebelhornstrasse 1,

D - 86343 Königsbrunn
Tel 08231/2369 or fax: 08231/87534. 

 

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