Heinrich Dreber

Franz-Dreber, portrayed by Georg Friedrich Bolte , Rome 1849

Heinrich Dreber (called Franz-Dreber * 9. January 1822 in Dresden , † 3. August 1875 in Anticoli Corrado ) was a German painter of romanticism .

Biographical

Carl Heinrich Dreber was the illegitimate son of Carl Gottlieb Dreber and the Dresden citizen daughter Christiane Juliane Seidel. He grew up in the house of his guardian HE Franz. From 1836 to 1841 he attended the Dresden Academy. His teacher was Ludwig Richter , whose idealistic conception and graphic treatment were initially decisive for Dreber. In 1841 he exhibited his first painting.

An inheritance enabled him to travel to Italy in 1843, which Ludwig Richter had also advised him to do. After staying at Lake Garda , Venice and Florence , he settled in Rome . The "Eternal City" and its surroundings, namely the Campagna Romana , the Alban Mountains and the Sabine Mountains , captured him so much that he spent his entire life there with short interruptions.

Bucolic dance in a southern landscape; Heinrich Dreber, around 1860; City Museum Bautzen

From 1855 Dreber lived permanently in Rome. During this period, the Italian landscape was the focus of his work. Through his friendship with Friedrich Preller (the elder) Dreber became the teacher of his son, Friedrich Preller (the younger). Between 1862 and 1869 he created several paintings for his villa in Zurich on behalf of Otto Wesendonk , Richard Wagner's patron .

Dreber married Faustina Bruni in 1869, c. Orioli.

Artistic work

Italian landscape with a monastery; Heinrich Dreber, 1845

Dreber's work is an example of the almost uninterrupted change from the stylistic views of the younger romantic period, as conveyed to him by Ludwig Richter, to ideal nature painting, as it culminated in the work of Arnold Böcklin and in the second half of the 19th century German (and Swiss) painting with certain.

Dreber never painted in front of nature. He composed his landscapes with the help of a rich fund of nature studies. In this way, he created an enclosed space in his pictures, in which nymphs, shepherds and country folk could enjoy themselves carefree.

Admission to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome was the only recognition Heinrich Dreber received during his lifetime.

In the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden is the painting "Bath of Diana".

literature

Lexicons

• Carl Clauss:  Dreber, Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, p. 385 f.
• Dreber, Karl Heinrich, called Franz-Dreber. 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. 237-238 ( archive.org ).
• Friedrich Noack : Dreber, Heinrich (called Franz-Dreber) . 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. 544-545 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
• Friedrich Schöne:  Dreber, Carl Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 104 ( digitized version ).

Studies

• Hans Joachim Neidhardt : German painting of the 19th century. EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-363-00468-0 , pp. 143 and 254.
• Jens Christian Jensen : watercolors and drawings of the German romanticism. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-7701-0976-7 , p. 159.
• Michael Thimann: Antiquity without gods. Heinrich Dreber's landscape art. In: Ernst Osterkamp , Thorsten Valk (Ed.): Imagination and Evidenz. Transformations of antiquity in aesthetic historicism (=  classic and modern. Series of publications by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Volume 3). De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-025297-2 , pp. 57-80.

Web links

Commons : Heinrich Dreber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Works by and about Heinrich Dreber  in the German Digital Library