Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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none the less affecting; and certainly the stolid peasant who stands over himcalmly smoking his pipe is as devoid of pity as any crow! There is winter here, as inSchencks picture, and the dreariness of it is weU expressed; the hunter whose shot hasbrought the animal down, is led to the place by his guide; at least that is the way we inter-pret the picture, though we should have looked for signs of a gun somewhere. The peasantsdog, too, seems a very disinterested spectator of a scene that generally excites some canineeagerness, but this animal has learned stolidity and indifference from his master. Adolf Schreyer is another painter who, like Barye, Delacroix, and Schenck—if wemay name this artist in the same breath with two such lords in the kingdom of art—likes to I ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 301 paint tlie stormy side of life. He was born in 1828 at Frankfort-on-the-Main, and as a childshowed great deliglit in drawing liorses. As lie gTew older lie frequented the riding-school,
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THE DISCOVERED STAG. FROM THE PICTURE BY ANTON BURGER. where he followed and studied the exercises of his favorite animals, and at the Stadel Insti-tute he contimied to studj^ in theory and from models what the riding-school had taught 302 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. him practically. After leaving school, he went to Munich, and later, to Diisseldorf, wherehe accomplished himself in the technics of his art. In 1848 he was invited by the Princeof Thum-and-Taxis to travel with him, and visited Hungary, AVallachia, and Southern Rus-sia. Here he studied the life of the Slavs, and their beasts of burden, and here he painted hisfirst battle-piece after the fight at Temesvar—a picture that had a great success, and madehis name luiown. In 1856 he accompanied the same princely patron to Syria and Egypt, andlater travelled with him in Algeria. The sketches and studies which were the result of thesetravels created a very lively impression when they were shown in Paris, and Schreyer soonfound h

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