Albert Dressler

Lakeland (1868)

Women at the well

Friedrich Wilhelm Albert Dressler (also Dreßler , born August 6, 1822 in Berlin ; † November 25, 1897 there ) was a German engraver and painter .

Life

Albert Dressler first learned the profession of copperplate engraver and was self-employed as such. He then switched to painting and studied at the Berlin Academy with Wilhelm Schirmer . Further study locations were then Munich and Düsseldorf . Numerous study trips took him to Capri (1872), the Upper Bavarian Alps, the Harz Mountains and northern Germany (around 1850). From 1856 to 1893 he was regularly represented with his works at the exhibitions of the Berlin Academy. Dressler was close friends with the Berlin painter Charles Hoguet . In 1866 he was made an honorary member of the Société royale belge des aquarellistes in Brussels.

Dressler received a professorship at the Königsberg Art Academy in 1871 as the successor to the sick August Behrendsen . In 1894 an eye operation and a stroke put an end to the painter's artistic work. Lonely and penniless, he died in Berlin in 1897 after a long illness. In 1898 there was a memorial exhibition in honor of Albert Dressler, organized by the Berlin National Gallery .

Dressler's choice of motifs mainly comprised antique, local and landscape subjects, executed as oil paintings and in a variety of watercolors. A detailed list of his works can be found in Friedrich von Boetticher's painting works of the 19th century .

literature

Dressler, Albert. In: Friedrich von Boetticher: painter works of the 19th century. Contribution to art history. Volume 1/1, sheets 1–30: Aagaard – Heideck. Ms. v. Boetticher's Verlag, Dresden 1891, pp. 239-240 ( archive.org ).
Hugo von Tschudi (ed.): Exhibition of works by the painters Albert Dreßler and Otto Knille . November - December 1898 . Royal Museums in Berlin. National Gallery. Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1898 (Royal National Gallery. Special exhibition. Series 2, 4), ( digiview.gbv.de ).
Dreßler, Albert . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 9 : Delaulne-Dubois . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1913, p. 555–556 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 2252 .

Web links

Commons : Albert Dreßler - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Works by Albert Dressler on the artnet portal

Individual evidence

↑ Dreßler, A. In: General Apartment Gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and Surroundings , 1845, Part 1, p. 85. “Kupferstecher, Kochstr. 57 ".

↑ Dreßler, A. In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1860, part 1, p. 94. "Landschaftsmaler, Hirschelstr. 25 “(until 1872 and again from 1894 under changing addresses).

personal data
SURNAME	Dressler, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dreßler, Albert; Dreßler, Friedrich Wilhelm Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engraver and painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 6, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	November 25, 1897
Place of death	Berlin

[1] Dreßler, A. In: General Apartment Gazette for Berlin, Charlottenburg and Surroundings , 1845, Part 1, p. 85. “Kupferstecher, Kochstr. 57 ".

[2] Dreßler, A. In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1860, part 1, p. 94. "Landschaftsmaler, Hirschelstr. 25 “(until 1872 and again from 1894 under changing addresses).