Wilhelm Müseler (rider)

Wilhelm Müseler (* 1887 in Berlin , † 1952 in Göttingen ) was a rider and author of a trend-setting riding apprenticeship .

Life

Wilhelm Müseler received military training as a rider and stood out for his distinctive riding talent. As a show jumper , Müseler was scheduled for the 1916 Olympic Games , which were canceled because of the First World War . At the end of the twenties he had to give up active riding for health reasons. In 1933 he wrote a riding apprenticeship that is still considered to be a pioneering classic that sets rules but does not lay down dogmas .

The work, published in 1933 by Verlag Paul Parey , Berlin, showed a rider from the Parthenon frieze on the cover and was furnished with many pictures and sketches. A few misunderstandings were corrected in later editions. The latest editions of the riding apprenticeship have been completely modernized optically and equipped with new images; they were published by Verlag Müller Rüschlikon.

In his riding apprenticeship, Müseler emphasized the dressage gymnastics of the horse as the basis of all disciplines, including versatility , jumping and hunting .

During the First World War, Müseler founded the Parforce Club Berlin and was always committed to academic equestrian sports . When he temporarily retired from the army in 1919, he was a major , and when he was reactivated shortly after the outbreak of World War II , he was promoted to colonel in the general staff.

His simple, folkish-inspired works, limited to Romanesque, Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance styles, German Art through the Ages (Berlin 1934), Spirit and Face of the Romanesque Period , Spirit and Face of Gothic (Berlin 1936), Spirit and Face of the Renaissance , Spirit and Face of the Baroque (Berlin 1937), European Art (Berlin 1940), European Painting (Berlin 1950) and the two posthumously published works Kunst der Welt (with Felix Dargel, Berlin 1952) and Changes in German Poetry (with Irma v. Hugo, Göttingen 1955), have tended to be forgotten today.

Works

• Riding instruction . ISBN 3-275-01513-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Müseler in the catalog of the German National Library