SCHREYER, ADOLF (1828-1899)

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SCHREYER, ADOLF (1828-1899) , German painter, was born at Frankfort-on-Main, and studied art first at the Staedel Institute in his native town, and then at

Stuttgart

STUTTGART

, Munich, and Dusseldorf; but he formed his style in Paris, whilst he found hisfavourite subjects in his travels in the

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

. He first accompanied Prince Thurn and Taxis through

Hungary

HUNGARY
HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

, 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 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 peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of battle incidents. His

work

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 the Schwerin Gallery, and others in the collection of Count Mensdorff-Pouilly and in the Raven Gallery, Berlin. His painting of a " Charge of Artillery of Imperial Guard " was formerly at the Luxembourg Museum. The Metropolitan Museum, New

York

YORK
YORK (
HOUSE
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)
OF)
YORK, EDMUND OF
LANGLEY
- LANGLEY, SAMUEL PIERPONT (1834-1906)
, DUKE OF (1341-1402)
YORK, EDWARD
YORK, FREDERICK
AUGUSTUS
- AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)
, DUKE OF (1763-1827)
YORK, RICHARD, DUKE

, owns three of Schreyer's oriental paintings: " Abandoned," " Arabs on the March " and " Arabs making a detour "; and many of his best pictures are in the Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, J. J. Astor, W. Astor, A. Belmont, and W. Walters collections. At the Kunsthalle in Hamburg is his " Wallachian Transport

Train

TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

," and at the Staedel Institute, Frankfort, are two of his Wallachian scenes.

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