Wilhelm Emelé was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 painter

Painting

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 of horse

Horse

The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...

s, military

Military

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 scenes and hunting

Hunting

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 scenes.

Biography

He first adopted a military career but studied art with Feodor Dietz

Feodor Dietz

Feodor Dietz was a German historical and battle painter.-Biography:He studied in Karlsruhe under Karl and Rudolf Kuntz, and while there was greatly influenced by Feodor Ivanovitch. He also studied under Philipp von Foltz at the Munich Academy, and aided the latter in the decoration of the royal...

 at Munich

Munich

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 and later at Antwerp and Paris

Paris

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. His canvases are noted for exact knowledge of military detail and are spirited in conception, his subjects being military. He lived in Vienna after 1861 where he attained great popularity as a painter of equestrian portraits and hunting scenes. Afterwards he resided successively in Munich, Berlin

Berlin

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, and Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

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Works

• “Battle of Stockach”
• “Capture of Heidelberg Bridge in 1799” (1857), purchased by the Austrian emperor
• “The Fight Near Aldenhoven” (1859)
• “The Square of the Battle of Aspern” (1860)
• “Capture of Camp Near Farmars”
• “Attack on the English by French Cuirassiers at Waterloo”
• “Battle of Würzburg” (1867), his best work for some
• “The Archduke Charles at Battle of Neerwinden” (1872)
• “Attack of the Bournernain Division Near Elsasshausen”
• “Battle of Dijon”
• “Meeting of Patrols of Seventh and Fourteenth Corps, Prussian Army, Near Vesoul”
• “Headquarters of 14th Army Corps in Battle of Belfast”
• “Episode of Battle of Wörth”
• “Victory of George II over the French at Dettingen” (1879)
• “Cavalry Encounter near Langenbrück”, gained first medal at the Vienna Exposition in 1873