PETER DREHER. "THREE GLASSES" LITHOGRAPHY.

Three glasses lithograph, sheet dimensions: 34.5 x 15.5 cm, frame dimensions: 69 x 52 cm, numbered 1/50, signed: Peter Drxxx 78.

Peter Dreher (1934): In 1972 the first single picture of a water glass was taken. "To show that it is not necessary to change the motif in order to be stimulated to paint",#3 he made further pictures of the same subject. Starting in 1974, these first pictures became a series that he continues to this day. The image is the same size as the object, an empty water glass, and is placed on a white tabletop and against a white background. The lighting, distance and aspect ratio are not changed in the "Night series", "Day by day good day I", while in the "Day series" the glass is painted under different lighting conditions, so here the color spectrum appears richer. The art historian Angeli Janhsen describes the project as follows: “Peter Dreher set up an experimental arrangement in the studio, which he sticks to, which he varies only slightly in different series, within the series. Here is the glass, here is the painter, here is the canvas, here is the lighting. You can ensure that the lighting and positioning is always the same, so that the same glass always appears the same."#4 Since 1974 until today (2017), around 5,200 pictures in the series "Tag um Tag guter Tag I" (Nachtserie) and "Tag um Tag gut Tag II" (day series) were created.

Other groups of works Another series, also begun in 1972, always shows the same landscape section at different times of the day. It is entitled "Beautiful days in the Black Forest" and was painted plein air. Also in his other series (Silverbowls, Vitrines, etc.) a.) he deals with the topic of time and the aspect of repetition.

He realized art-in-architecture projects at home and abroad. In Freiburg in 1978 he designed the façade of the Freiburg University Library with a series of self-portraits.

In addition to regular stays in the USA, where so-called post-pop art works were created, Dreher also developed concepts with political content. The work "The Large Poster in Watercolors" and other large-format watercolors deal with advertising images. Language and the written word also play an important role in Dreher's work ("Pictures"). His oeuvre includes a collection of prints. Since the 1970s he has been dealing with abstract pictorial inventions.

In his paintings, Peter Dreher deals with the philosophical teachings of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (works entitled "Long Brief Views"). Aspects of transience, temporality and perception play an important role. The subject of the picture appears here “incompletely” in a kind of fragmentation and has to be supplemented by the viewer.