Mittwoch, 11. März 2009

Robert Taylor and Spanish Riding School




6 Kommentare:

  1. All the paint/pinto horse pictures are making my heart beat faster! I love them!

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  2. This video is from the movie I was talking about in the Music for the Performance discussion.

    In case anyone is wondering, the actor Robert Taylor obviously rode in the close up shots. So, did the main supporting male actor, Eddie Albert. You only can see him when they halt to salute about 1 minute into the video. He's the closest one to the camera.

    If you watch carefully, you will see that in the longer shots, there is a different horse leading the Quadrille. That's when Podhajsky was riding. The horse that Robert Taylor rode was totally white. The stallion Podhajsky rode was still young enough that he had black in his mane. So, you can tell they are different horses even if you can't see the rider's face.

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  3. The stallion, which Col.Podhajsky rode in that reprise was Conversano Soja. He was a little bit to difficult to ride for mr. Taylor ;-)
    Further on, we can also see former Oberbereiters, like Mr. Irbinger, Mr.Eichinger and Mr.Tschautscher. And I was wondering if Mr Ernst Bachinger was also involved? I thought I recognized him too... (might be possible, the movie is from 1963)
    Regards
    Atjan

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  4. Yes, I thought I recognized Mr Ernst Bachinger too. I t would be hard to mistake former First Chief Rider Tschautscher since he appears in one of the SRS posters which hang in my tackroom! :-) But, I didn't see Mr Irbinger often enough to recognize him in a movie that was filmed 20 - 25 years before I first saw him ride. So, thanks for identifying the others!

    John

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  5. The history of the painting is:

    L. de Witte (tätig 1. Hälfte 18. Jahrhundert)

    Stallbursche mit schwarz-weissem Hengst in weiter Landschaft, um 1700/1750

    Öl auf Kupfer
    Höhe 53 cm, Breite 68 cm
    unten rechts auf den Brunnenstufen bez.: de Witte

    Provenienz: erworben 2004 durch Fürst Hans-Adam II. von und zu Liechtenstein im Wiener Kunsthandel

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  6. Hätte ich Hamilton zugeschrieben, aber stimmt wohl. Hamilton hatte auch für das Fürstenhaus Liechtenstein Pferde gemalt ( den Schecken z.B.aus dem Eisgruber Gestüt), ist auf 1700 datiert. L.de Witte´s Bilder (beide, die Du als Video-Titel verwendest-) werden 1700/1750 zugeordnet, hatte er Hamilton´s Stil kopiert?
    Schon merkwürdig, so ähnlich und die gleiche Zeit... was steckt dahinter? Man müßte die Bilder größer sehen, da würde man erkennen, ob es doch nicht
    derselbe Maler sein kann...von einem "L.de Witte" habe ich nichts gefunden, außer, dass er auch zu fast gleicher Zeit für die Liechtensteiner gearbeitet hat,
    und einige Büsten sind bekannt.

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