Adolf Schreyer (1828 - 1899)

Adolf Schreyer

Adolf Schreyer was a German painter of the second half of the 19th century. He is known as an orientalist, landscape, battle and animalist, a representative of the Düsseldorf School of Art. Schreyer served in the Austrian army and participated in a military expedition to Wallachia during the Crimean War.

Schreyer also traveled to Egypt, Syria, and Algeria, where he painted many Orientalist paintings as well as images of horses with riders. His paintings of battle scenes, including events of the Crimean campaign, as well as genre paintings and landscapes, are characterized by vivid colors, vigorous movement, and drama.