Gerhard Dreher

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Gerhard Dreher (1962)

Gerhard Dreher (born January 29, 1924 in Enzberg (Mühlacker) , † February 20, 2008 in Öhringen ) was a German glass and object artist who worked primarily in the fields of glass art and art in construction .

biography

Gerhard Dreher was the son of the teacher Karl Dreher. After his transfer to Weilheim / Teck , the family took up residence there. Dreher studied from 1946 to 1949 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart under Gerhard Gollwitzer . Later I did an internship in the glass workshop in Düsseldorf with Georg Meistermann . From 1951 Dreher worked as a freelance artist.

The focus of his work was initially on glass windows in churches and public buildings in the near and far vicinity. He received orders for windows in churches from Weilheim / Teck, Stuttgart, Frankfurt am Main , Bonn, Düsseldorf, Krefeld, Duisburg, Wuppertal, Nürtingen, Esslingen, Ludwigsburg, Calw-Heumaden, Murrhardt, Kirchheim / Teck, and work in Koblenz, Tübingen , Hamburg, Erlangen, Güglingen.

Pictures, murals, tapestries, mosaics were created, partly in stone and partly in wood in church and public buildings. The later works mainly include works made of corrugated cardboard, some of which correspond to meditation objects. In 1973 Dreher taught at the Stuttgart Art Academy . In the 1970s and 1980s he came to art therapy and was supplemented and supported by his wife Gisela Dreher-Richels , who is herself a freelance artist. He lived in Künzelsau as a retiree .

literature

  • General artist lexicon . Vol. 29., p. 356f, KG Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2001.
  • Gert K. Nagel: Swabian artist lexicon: from the baroque to the present. Art and antiques, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-921811-36-8 .
  • Artist directory Baden-Württemberg. Vol. II, 1982.
  • Adolf Schahl: The art monuments of the Rems-Murr-Kreis. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-422-00560-9 ; I, pp. 409, 567; II, p. 1295.

Web links

Commons : Gerhard Dreher  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files