Noemi Steuerwald

Noemi Steuerwald is a historian and a specialist in the cultural history of equestrian sports in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Horses for courses: a symbol of masculinity or a girl’s best friend?

Noemi Steuerwald 02.04.2025 Ponies as the silky-smooth projection of feminine sensitivity; riding as a girl’s pink, heart-shaped dream. This cultural image, although common today, only emerged around the mid-20th century.

The horse – both a symbol of manliness and a little girl’s dream. A brush drawing by Simon Volmar, circa 1830.