Richard Dreher

Richard Eduard Dreher (born September 10, 1875 in Dresden , † October 29, 1932 in Pillnitz ) was a German painter .

Life

Richard Dreher grew up as the oldest of five children in poor circumstances in Dresden. When he was 14 years old, he began an apprenticeship with a Dresden lithographer. In 1892 he switched to a Berlin lithographer and later became a retoucher for a photographer. During this time he occupied himself more with art and met Gerhart Hauptmann in 1895 . During a stay in Hamburg he decided to devote himself only to art. In 1903 he took part in art exhibitions in Berlin and Dresden. The following year he moved with his family to Rockau , where he mainly painted Elbe landscapes. He continued to take part in exhibitions and in 1908 received the Villa Romana Prize of the German Association of Artists . The onset of success enabled Richard Dreher to spend a year with his family in Florence and in Forte dei Marmi near Pisa . Even after that he continued to exhibit successfully, for example at Galerie Ernst Arnold and Paul Cassirer . Up until the First World War , he went on study trips to Denmark , southern France , Rome and Tuscany . After getting married a second time, he bought a house in Elbersdorf in 1915 . Because he did not have to do military service, he was able to continue studying art during the war. After the end of the war he went to the Dresden Art Academy as a professor of painting in 1919, teaching Wilhelm Lachnit and Otto Garten, among others . In 1924 he went on a study trip to Italy again. Dreher increasingly withdrew from the public for health reasons. From 1927 until his death in 1932 he lived in the water palace of the Pillnitz Castle .

His son was the lawyer Eduard Dreher .

Artistic work

Dreher represented the principle of order and the simplification of the received natural impression of form and color. He was looking for objective pictorial laws in works of a classically controlled expressionism . At the beginning he painted numerous works that can be assigned to Neo-Impressionism . He mainly painted nature and still lifes, rarely portraits and nude studies. From February 23 to April 10, 2002, an exhibition by the Dresden State Art Collections in the Neue Meister gallery in Dresden was dedicated to him.

literature

• Sabine Schubert: Richard Dreher: 1875–1932; Exhibitions: Galerie Neue Meister in the Albertinum in Dresden, February 23 to April 10, 2002; Gallery in Ernst Rietschel's birth house in Pulsnitz, February 22 to March 20, 2002. State Art Collections, Dresden 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Thomas Kühn: Dreher, Richard Eduard . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .