Peter
Dreher
Peter
Dreher
Dreher
Whether it’s about still lifes, façades of New York buildings or abstract motifs, the subjects of Peter Dreher’s paintings – repeated in the series form – disappear in favour of a pictorial exploration of light and transparency. In 1974, the artist creates the first canvas of what constitutes to date the work of his life, the series Tag um Tag guter Tag (Every Day is a Good Day).
Aged thirteen at the end of WWII, Peter Dreher was deeply affected by the atrocities of the Nazi regime and its repercussions on German post-war society. Since then, painting became a way out in which to seek shelter and to entrust with the history of his meditation exercises.
Important retrospectives dedicated to his work have been held at the Milton Keynes Museum, in England (2013), at the Berlin Landesvertretung Baden-Würtemberg (2012) and at the Geneva Modern and Contemporary Art Museum (2011). His works, part of the Pinault Collection, were first shown at the 2016 “Accrochage” ("Hanging") exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
Aged thirteen at the end of WWII, Peter Dreher was deeply affected by the atrocities of the Nazi regime and its repercussions on German post-war society. Since then, painting became a way out in which to seek shelter and to entrust with the history of his meditation exercises.
Important retrospectives dedicated to his work have been held at the Milton Keynes Museum, in England (2013), at the Berlin Landesvertretung Baden-Würtemberg (2012) and at the Geneva Modern and Contemporary Art Museum (2011). His works, part of the Pinault Collection, were first shown at the 2016 “Accrochage” ("Hanging") exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
