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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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