The Chronicles of Conflict and Cavalry: The Life of August Querfurt In the grand, sweeping tapestry of the eighteenth-century Baroque, few artists captured the visceral pulse of military life with as much focused intensity as August Querfurt. Born in 1696 in Wolfenbüttel, Querfurt emerged from a lineage of artistic discipline, having received his earliest instruction from his father, the landscape and animal painter Tobias Querfurt. This foundational training instilled in him a profound respect for the anatomical precision required to render the powerful musculature of horses and the intrica…