Peter Dreher

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Peter Dreher (born August 26, 1932 in Mannheim ; † February 18, 2020 ) was a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Peter Dreher studied from 1950 to 1956 at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe with Karl Hubbuch , Wilhelm Schnarrenberger and Erich Heckel .

In 1965 he became head of a painting class in the branch of the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe in Freiburg im Breisgau and was appointed professor there in 1968. In 1997 he retired. He lived and worked in Freiburg .

He was a member of the Artists Association of Baden-Württemberg and the German Association of Artists, as well as chairman of the Peter Dreher Foundation, founded in 2015. Peter Dreher died on February 18, 2020 at the age of 87.

Works (selection)

Self-portraits, Freiburg University Library
Day after day, good day

In 1972 a first single picture was taken of a water glass. “In order to show that it is not necessary to change the motif in order to be stimulated to paint,” he made further pictures of the same subject. From 1974 onwards a series was created from these first pictures, which he continued into the last years of his life. The picture is the same size as the object , an empty water glass, and is placed on a white table surface and against a white background. The lighting , distance and image format are not changed in the “night series”, “day by day good day I”, while the glass in the “day series” is painted in different light conditions so that the color spectrum appears richer. The art historian Angeli Janhsen describes the project as follows: “Peter Dreher has set up an experimental set-up in the studio, which he adheres to and which he only varies slightly, in different series within the series. Here is the glass, here is the painter, here is the canvas, here is the lighting. The same lighting and positioning can be guaranteed so that the same glass always appears the same. "

Between 1974 and 2017 about 5200 pictures were taken in the series "Tag zu Tag Gute Tag I" (night series) and "Tag zu Tag Gute Tag II" (day series).

Further groups of works

Another series, also started in 1972, always shows the same section of landscape at different times of the day. It is entitled “Nice days in the Black Forest” and was painted plein air. In his other series (Silverbowls, Vitrines etc.) he also dealt with the topic of time and the aspect of repetition.

He realized art-in-building projects at home and abroad. In 1978 he designed the facade of the Freiburg University Library with a series of self-portraits .

In addition to regular stays in the USA, in which so-called post-pop art works were created, Dreher also developed concepts with political content. The work “The large poster in watercolors” and other large-format watercolors deal with advertising images. Language and the written word also play an important role in Dreher's work (“Bildbilder”). His oeuvre includes a bundle of prints. Since the 1970s there has been an examination of abstract pictorial inventions.

In his painting, Peter Dreher dealt with the philosophical teaching of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (works under the title “Long Brief Glances”). Aspects of impermanence, temporality and perception play an important role. The subject of the picture appears “incompletely” in a kind of fragmentation and has to be supplemented by the viewer.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1954: Municipal art gallery , Mannheim
  • 1974: Museum Folkwang , Essen; Lower Saxony State Museum for Art and Cultural History , Oldenburg
  • 1975: Kunstverein Freiburg
  • 1977: State Art Gallery Baden-Baden
  • 1979: Museum Schloss Morsbroich , Leverkusen
  • 1982: Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal
  • 1983: Kunstverein Ludwigshafen
  • 1990: Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim; Museum of New Art Freiburg ; Hans Mayer Gallery , Düsseldorf
  • 1991: Kunstverein Konstanz
  • 1993: Badischer Kunstverein , Karlsruhe; Quint-Krichmann-Projects, The La Jolla Gallery, USA
  • 1995: Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler
  • 1998: Mark Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA
  • 1998: Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, USA
  • 2000: Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, California
  • 2001: Galerie S65, Aalst, Belgium
  • 2003: Clothed and Unclothed , The Athenaeum, La Jolla, California; Real, Mark Quint Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
  • 2007: 1st Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
  • 2007: The Approach , London, Great Britain
  • 2009: The Inner Look - The Interior in Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Tübingen
  • 2010: Realism - the adventure of reality. Courbet - Hopper - Gursky, Kunsthalle Emden
  • 2010: Foreign home. Art in Baden-Württemberg , Kunsthalle Mannheim
  • 2012: The clover flower. Peter Dreher on his 80th birthday, Galerie Wagner + Partner, Berlin
  • 2012/13: Peter Dreher. Tribute to painting . Exhibition hall in the Augustinermuseum , Freiburg im Breisgau (on the occasion of his 80th birthday)
  • 2013: Peter Dreher , MK Galleries, Milton Keynes, GB
  • 2014: Day by Day Good Day (1974–2014) Koenig & Clinton Gallery, New York; Day by Day Good Day , Silverbowls Osmos Gallery, New York
  • 2014: Pure water - the world's most precious resource , Lentos Art Museum, Linz, Austria
  • 2014: Fixing a Hole , Koenig & Clinton, New York; Stay in love , Lisa Cooley, New York
  • 2015: Same and equal and different , Situation Kunst, Bochum
  • 2015: Night Begins the Day. Rethinking Space, Time and Beauty , Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
  • 2015: Organic situation , Koenig & Clinton, New York
  • 2016: Accrochage , Pinault Fondation Punta della Dogana, Venice
  • 2016: Let flowers speak , Museum Schloss Moyland , Bedburg-Hau
  • 2016: Real Time ", Kunstmuseum Bonn
  • 2016: Time passed , Solothurn Art Museum
  • 2016: Timelines , Port25, Mannheim
  • 2016: Inside. Contemporary Artists and Writers in Reading Prison , Artangel, Reading, GB
  • 2017: Mayor Gallery, London
  • 2017: Behind the mirror , Koenig & Clinton, New York
  • 2017: For Eternity - Archival Strategies in Art , Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg
  • 2018: Pas de Deux Romano-Germanic Kolumba - Kolumba, Cologne
  • 2018: The Song of Things. Still life in the changing world of art - Museum of Contemporary Art , Hurrle Collection, Durbach
  • 2018: Traces of Time - The Power of Now , Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt
  • 2019: 33rd Bienal de São Paulo , Affective Affinities
  • 2019: Soul Landscapes , Koenig & Clinton, New York, USA
  • 2019: Beachcomber Shores , König Galerie, Berlin
  • 2019: The Real. Three Propositions , White Cube, Bermondsey, London, GB

Collections in which Dreher's works are represented

Awards and honors

literature

  • Day after day is a good day. Peter Dreher . City Museums Freiburg, Museum of New Art 27.1. - 4.3.1990, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, 5.8 - 23.9.1990. Published by the city of Freiburg im Breisgau / Museum for New Art and the Mannheim City Art Gallery. Editing: Jochen Ludwig and Detlef Zinke. Waldkircher Verlagsgesellschaft, Waldkirch 1990.
  • Painting is dead. Long live painting. 150 years of the Karlsruhe Art Academy - the professors from 1947 to 1987 . Städtische Galerie, Karlsruhe 2004, ISBN 3-923344-61-9 , p. 172.
  • Peter Dreher - Homage to Painting [This publication is a collection catalog of the series Tag um Tag Gute Tag and appears on the occasion of the donation by Peter Dreher and on the occasion of the exhibition "Peter Dreher - Homage to Painting", 25.11.2012 - 7.4.2013] = Peter Dreher - Homage to painting = Peter Dreher - Homage à la peinture / Museum for New Art - Freiburg Municipal Museums. [Concept: Christine Litz. Red. Christiane Grathwohl-Scheffel]. Snoeck, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86442-026-9 .
  • Peter Dreher. Vintage glasses and syllable bowls . Verlag Galerie Albert Baumgarten, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-925223-52-5
  • Peter Dreher. Fragments. Glasses. Plants , ed. Thomas von Salis, Salzburg 2015
  • Behind the mirror . Cologne, Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2017

Web links

Commons : Peter Dreher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Hübl: Painter Peter Dreher died: picture series “Day by day, good day”, best-known work. In: Badische Latest News , February 20, 2020. Retrieved February 20, 2020.
  2. ^ Künstlerbund Baden-Württemberg eV: Peter Dreher. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  3. ^ Deutscher Künstlerbund eV: Peter Dreher. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .
  4. ^ Quote from the artist, 2012.
  5. ↑ Angeli Janhsen , March 2013, Peter Dreher “Day by day is a good day” since 1974 until today, x, x, xxxx, xxxx pictures, mostly oil on canvas, 25 × 20 cm.
  6. ↑ Peter Dreher, Fragments-Glasses-Plants, Thomas von Salis, 2015, from: Irene von Neuendorff, The happy Sisyphos .
  7. ^ BZ editorial staff: PEOPLE. Badische Zeitung, June 30, 2018, accessed June 30, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Dreher, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH before February 20, 2020