Benedikt Dreyer

Benedikt Dreyer ( * before 1495; † after 1555) was a German sculptor and painter.

Life

Dreyer 's ( 1506/ 07) detected after a journeyman activity in Lüneburg by home ownership in Lübeck until 1555 documentary.

Works

Created out of his hand altars of St. Anthony's Altar (about 1522) from the demolished Maria Magdalene Church of the castle monastery and an altar of the Church of Trammplatz, are part of the magnificent collection of medieval religious art in St. Anne Convent in Lübeck. Also, are attributed to him in the Holy Spirit Hospital, God the Father with the Dead Christ and the coats of arms of England, mountains and Nowgorodfahrer (now in the St. Annen - Museum). The carved for Lendersdorf parish church of St. Michael is still there; originally associated groups of figures are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Iceland. Another altar Dreyer from the Church of Birket on the Danish island of Lolland is located in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen.

1533/34 Dreyer created a pulpit Reformation motifs for St. Mary's Church. The resulting in Lübeck, just three years after implementation of the Reformation work of art is one of the oldest and most important works of art of the Reformation in Northern Germany. 1699, as Mary's church received a new pulpit in the baroque style, the pulpit was sold to Zarrentin am Schaalsee, where it is still used in the church Zarrentin.