Drawing Die Bremer Stadsmuzikanten by Dreyer 1825

Friedrich Adolf Dreyer (1780-1850)

[Drawing Die Bremer Stadsmuzikanten, de Bremer Stadsmuzikanten 1825] Drawing by Friedrich Adolf Dreyer (Bremen 1780-1850), signed “Bremen 1825”, 23,5×47 cm. A parade of music making bears with city view of Bremer in the back.

Name: [Drawing Die Bremer Stadsmuzikanten, de Bremer Stadsmuzikanten 1825] Drawing by Friedrich Adolf Dreyer (Bremen 1780-1850), signed “Bremen 1825”, 23,5×47 cm. A parade of music making bears with city view of Bremer in the back.
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M6811 [Drawing Die Bremer Stadsmuzikanten, de Bremer Stadsmuzikanten 1825] Drawing by Friedrich Adolf Dreyer (Bremen 1780-1850), signed “Bremen 1825”, 23,5×47 cm. A parade of music making bears with city view of Bremer in the back.

Friedrich Adolph Dreyer (1780–1850) was a German painter, lithographer, art dealer, and collector. Born on May 25, 1780, in Bremen, he was the son of Senator Dr. Gustav Wilhelm Dreyer. Dreyer received artistic training in Dresden, Vienna, and Rome. In 1805, he married and became a drawing instructor at the Pädagogium in Bremen.

His early career as an artist was modest. From 1811, he published city maps and produced paintings, etchings, and lithographs. In 1817, Dreyer initiated a call among 65 art enthusiasts in Bremen to establish his art collection, which was accessible to the public between 1817 and 1823, as a permanent institution modeled after the Frankfurt Städel Foundation. Dreyer’s gallery is thus considered a precursor to the Bremen Art Association (Kunstverein in Bremen), officially founded in 1823.

In 1821, together with Italian art dealer Giacomo Comolli, Dreyer took over the lithographic establishment founded by Betty Gleim in 1819, which he led alone from 1824. There, he published his etchings based on drawings by Johann Heinrich Menken and other significant works. His shop, located at Obernstraße No. 11 and later at Katharinenstraße No. 13, sold paintings, silk wallpapers, and porcelain. In 1843, the Bremen Senate appointed Dreyer as an art expert. His surviving oil paintings and graphics are housed in the Kunsthalle Bremen and the Focke Museum. Notable works by Dreyer include a lithograph portrait of Bremen Senator Dr. jur. Hieronymus Klugkist (1778–1851), founder of the Kunstverein in Bremen. This lithograph is part of the collection at the Kunsthalle Bremen. Additionally, Dreyer created a drawing titled “Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten” (The Town Musicians of Bremen) in 1825, which reflects his engagement with local cultural themes.

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