Heinrich Dreber

Heinrich Dreber ( called Franz- Dreber; born January 9, 1822 in Dresden, † August 3, 1875 in Anti Corrado) was a German painter of the Romantic period.

Biographical

Heinrich Dreber attended from 1836 to 1841 the Dresden Academy. His teacher was Ludwig Richter, whose idealistic conception and graphic treatment for turners were first determining. In 1841 he exhibited his first paintings.

An inheritance enabled him to travel to Italy in 1843, for which he had also advised Ludwig Richter. After living at Lake Garda, Venice and Florence, he was resident in Rome. The "Eternal City " and its surroundings, including the Campagna Romana, the Alban Hills and the Sabine Mountains, captured him so that he spent with brief interruptions, his whole life there.

From 1855 on Dreber constantly lived in Rome. In this period the Italian landscape was the focus of his work. Through his friendship with Friedrich Preller ( the Elder ) was Dreber teacher whose son, Friedrich Preller ( the younger). Between 1862 and 1869 he created on behalf of Otto Wesendonck, the patron of Richard Wagner, several paintings of the Villa Zurich.

Artistic work

Dreber work provides an example of the almost unbroken change of the stylistic ideas of the younger romantic as him Ludwig Richter had conveyed towards an idealistic nature painting as it culminated in the works of Arnold Böcklin and in the second half of the 19th century, the German ( and Swiss ) painting with certain.

Dreber never painted from nature. His landscapes he composed using a rich pool of nature studies. In his paintings he created in this way an enclosed space in which nymphs, shepherds and countrymen could enjoy carefree.

Admission to the Accademia di San Luca in Rome was the only recognition that learned Heinrich Dreber during his lifetime.

In the Dresden State Art Collections is the painting " Bath of Diana".