Wilhelm Schreuer, Full Gallop flowers A year after arriving in

A year after arriving in Germany

Following the death of the prince of Condé during battle

and The Courtauld

Probably commissioned by the family themselves

it offered female artists the opportunity to train at a time when a male-dominated society still broadly frowned upon such endeavours

Wilhelm Schreuer, Full Gallop flowers A year after arriving inThis early 20th century oil painting by German artist Wilhelm Schreuer (1866 1933) depicts several horseback riders at full gallop hurtling along a dust track. Schreuer was an ingenious figure painter who exhibited extensively in Dsseldorf and Cologne. Energy, immediacy, and the sound of galloping hooves. Its palpable and enough to set ones heart racing amid a cloud of disrupted dust. How does an artist capture such movement with a few deft marks and