Hans Dressler

Hans Dressler (born April 5, 1869 in Breslau , Lower Silesia ; † April 28, 1943 there ) was a German painter and draftsman .

Life

Dressler was born the son of the painter and draftsman Adolf Dressler . He followed his father's profession and studied first with Albrecht Bräuer at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Breslau in 1885/86 , then from 1886 to 1891 at the Munich Academy with Karl Raupp , Johann Caspar Herterich the Elder. Ä. and Wilhelm von Diez .

In 1892 he returned to Breslau and ran his own painting and drawing school there. From 1922/1923 he ran a studio in the Wroclaw Zoo . Several trips took him to Italy , Hiddensee , the Curonian Spit , the Giant Mountains and Upper Silesia .

On October 5, 1922, he was awarded the 2nd Class Medal of Merit of the Kyffhäuserbund for his participation in the First World War .

His work includes numerous animal representations (animalist) and portraits . City views and landscapes were created under the influence of his father. He was also known for designing bookplates . Today, numerous works by Dressler are privately owned.

literature

Erwin Hintze : Dreßler, Hans . 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. 556–557 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
Hans Dressler . 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 .
Jan Sakwerda: Signum Libri Decorum. Silesia and Silesians on old bookplates. Exhibition catalog, Muzeum Miejskie Wrocławia (Wroclaw City Museum) and Upper Silesian State Museum Ratingen-Hösel, 2005, ISBN 83-89551-16-0 .

Individual evidence

↑ Hans Dreßler . In: Reports of the “Association of Silesian Ornithologists” . Volume 26, issue 1/4. The association, October 1941, p. 68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Piotr Łukaszewicz, Anna Kozak, Adolf Dressler (eds.): Pictures of nature . Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu, 1997, ISBN 83-8676675-1 , p. 106 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Dressler, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter and draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wroclaw , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH	April 28, 1943
Place of death	Wroclaw , Lower Silesia

[1] Hans Dreßler . In: Reports of the “Association of Silesian Ornithologists” . Volume 26, issue 1/4. The association, October 1941, p. 68 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[2] Piotr Łukaszewicz, Anna Kozak, Adolf Dressler (eds.): Pictures of nature . Muzeum Narodowe we Wrocławiu, 1997, ISBN 83-8676675-1 , p. 106 ( limited preview in Google Book search).