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Augusta Stylianou Gallery 
Cavalry Battle in front of the village Emil Johannes Hünten (19 January 1827 — 1 February 1902) was a German military painter.
Emil Hünten Born in Paris on January 19, 1827, the son of the composer, Franz Hünten, he studied art under H. Flandrin and Horace Vernet at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1848, he moved to Antwerp to work in the studios Wappers and Dyckmans, before heading to Düsseldorf in 1851 where his teachers were Julius Lessing and Wilhelm Camphausen. He won medals for his works at Berlin (1872) and Vienna (1873), and became a member of the Berlin Academy in 1878. He excelled as a painter of horses. With such influences, it is not surprising that the artist began to paint historical scenes, and gradually turned to military subjects. His work appealed to Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia who invited him to accompany the army on the campaign in Schleswig-Holstein in 1864. Two years later, Hünten was attached to the Prussian forces in the Austro-Prussian War, and four year later, he covered the Franco-Prussian War. One of his pupils was the English historical/military artist, Ernest Crofts. He died at Düsseldorf on February 1, 1902. Prussian Cuirassiers dashing over a Bridge (1852–53) Further reading Obituary, The Athenaeum, 1902, page 218. External links museum kunst palast website Owns 24 notebooks by Hünten, including more than 1000 sketches.
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