Friedrich Adolph Dreyer

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Friedrich Adolph Dreyer (born May 25, 1780 in Bremen ; † May 21, 1850 in Bremen) was a German painter and lithographer , art dealer and collector.

biography

The old stock exchange in Bremen. Lithograph by Friedrich Adolph Dreyer, 1822

Dreyer was the son of Senator Dr. Gustav Wilhelm Dreyer (1749–1800) and brother-in-law of the painter Johann Heinrich Menken . He was trained artistically in Dresden , Vienna and Rome . In 1805 he married and became a drawing teacher at the pedagogy in Bremen.

His beginnings as an artist were humble. From 1811 he published city maps. He made paintings , etchings and lithographs . In 1817 he initiated a call from 65 Bremen art friends to permanently establish his collection of paintings, which was made accessible to the public between 1817 and 1823, based on the model of the Frankfurt Städel Foundation . The Dreyers Gallery is therefore considered to be a trendsetter for the Bremen Art Association, which was officially founded in 1823 . In 1821 Dreyer, together with the Italian art dealer Giacomo Comolli, was able to take over Betty Gleim's (1781–1827) lithography company , which he set up in 1819 and which he managed alone from 1824 on. There he also published his etchings based on drawings by Johann Heinrich Menken and other larger sheets. In the Obernstrasse no. 11 and then in the Katharinenstrasse no. 13 he sold not only pictures, but also silk wallpapers and porcelain. In 1843 Dreyer was appointed an art expert by the Senate. His (few preserved) oil paintings and graphics are kept in the Bremen Kunsthalle and the Focke Museum .

Dreyer's son J. Daniel was a curator at the Kunsthalle for many years. One daughter married the master watchmaker and first Bremen photographer Peter Heinrich August Wolff . After Dreyer's death, the printing company was continued by his family and then taken over by H. Laue. It existed until around 1923, most recently at Bredenstrasse 1.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrea Less: The "Picture Gallery" by FA Dreyer in Bremen from 1817. A contribution to the (pre-) history of the art association in Bremen . In: Bremisches Jahrbuch 96, 2017, pp. 29–54.
  2. ↑ Harald Goergens and Alfred Löhr: Pictures for all. Bremer Photographie im 19. Jahrhundert , Bremen 1985, pp. 26–27 (with further portraits of Dreyer).

literature

personal data
SURNAME Dreyer, Friedrich Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dreyer, Friedrich Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and lithographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1850
Place of death Bremen