Gabriel Dreer

Gabriel Dreer (* around 1580 in Hechingen ; † 1631 in Admont ), also known as Dreyer and Dreher, was a German painter , barrel painter and draftsman and designed glass paintings.

He probably completed his training in Munich with Peter Candid and Friedrich Sustris . Despite massive intervention by Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria , he was denied citizenship of the city of Memmingen in 1603 . He then moved to Chur , where he created three paintings between 1604 and 1606. In 1607 he is proven to be a master in the Benedictine abbey of Ottobeuren . From 1613 he painted six lunette paintings for the Buxheim Charterhouse near Memmingen on behalf of the Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV . In 1614 he created an altar painting for the Weingarten monastery near Ravensburg, which was considered lost . In 1615 Gabriel Dreyer bought a house in Ottobeuren . In 1619 he made an altar painting with the vision of St. Jerome for the study church of the Assumption of Mary in Dillingen an der Donau . In 1620 he created another altar painting for Kronburg .

In 1622 he moved to Admont Abbey , where, until his death, he was in charge of the Baroque renovation of the Benedictine Abbey church, which was destroyed in a fire in 1865. Dreyer provided the paintings for the monumental high altar and the side altars as well as the ceiling and wall paintings, which have come down to us through traces of Gabriel Hornstein . The apostle figures in the nave were also by Dreyer. In the meantime, he worked repeatedly for the Benedictine Abbey of Ottobeuren. In 1631 the Admont Abbey granted the painter a burial place in the monastery church.

literature

Dreer, Gabriel . In: Hermann Alexander Müller, Hans Wolfgang Singer (Ed.): General Artist Lexicon . tape 6 . Literary Institute, Rütten & Loening, Frankfurt a. M. 1921, p. 75 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - incorrect information “born before 1600 in Belgium”).
Dreer, Gabriel . 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. 547 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
Sabine Russ, Matthias Kunze: Dreer (Dreher; Dreyer), Gabriel . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 29, Saur, Munich a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-598-22769-8 , p. 351.
Sabine Russ: Gabriel Dreer (around 1580–1631) and the artistic activity of the Admont and Ottobeuren monasteries. With a contribution to the sculptor Hans Scham (around 1588–1654) . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-422-06456-7 .

Individual evidence

^ Jacob Wichner: Admont Monastery in Styria and its relationship to art. From archival sources . R. Brzezowsky, 1888 ( books.google.de - restricted view).

personal data
SURNAME	Dreer, Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dreyer, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1580
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hechingen
DATE OF DEATH	1631
Place of death	Admont

[1] Jacob Wichner: Admont Monastery in Styria and its relationship to art. From archival sources . R. Brzezowsky, 1888 ( books.google.de - restricted view).