14 Facts About Peter Dreher

Peter Dreher was a German artist and academic teacher.

Peter Dreher painted series of landscapes, interiors, flowers and skulls, beginning his series Tag um Tag guter Tag in 1974.

Peter Dreher began to draw at age seven, determined to become an artist.

When Dreher was twelve years old, his father was killed fighting in Russia in World War II.

Peter Dreher studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe in the 1950s, when the artistic trend was leaning towards figurative, with Karl Hubbuch and Wilhelm Schnarrenberger, who stood for the New Objectivity movement, and with Erich Heckel, one of the founders of Die Brucke.

Peter Dreher had his first solo exhibition in 1954 at the Stadtische Kunsthalle Mannheim.

Peter Dreher became known for his series Tag um Tag guter Tag which he began in 1974, painting the same glass more than 5,000 times.

Peter Dreher created series of landscapes and interiors, flower pieces and skulls.

Peter Dreher was a lecturer of painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe from 1965 at the Freiburg location, and from 1968 a professor there.

Peter Dreher retired from his position as a professor in 1997.

At first, Peter Dreher had only intended to paint the glass five or six times, but found he did not want to stop.

Peter Dreher painted the glass at least fifty times a year, and was still painting it in the 2010s, saying he would stop "when the motivation stopped".

Peter Dreher always painted it centered on a 25 x 20cm neutral grey ground, from the same distance and at life scale.

From 1977 to 1979, Peter Dreher painted on-site several self-portraits as decoration for the library of the University of Freiburg.