Wilhelm Schreuer, Full Gallop flowers This early 20th-century mixed media

This early 20th-century mixed media by K & K Hof Atelier Pietzner of Vienna depicts a respectable family within a neoclassical garden setting

Probably commissioned by the family themselves

swaying tall among the grasses

A year after arriving in Germany

Formed in 1803

Wilhelm Schreuer, Full Gallop flowers This early 20th-century mixed mediaThis 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