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The German artist Peter Dreher, born in Mannheim in 1932, devotes his principal series, Tag um Tag guter Tag (“Day after day, a good day”), to the repeated depiction of the same glass: it comprises more than five thousand paintings. His work also returns to a limited repertoire of motifs — a skull, a silver vase, a glass basin and flowers — while landscapes appear less frequently.
After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe from 1950 to 1956, he taught there from 1965 and took charge of the painting class in 1968. Among the distinctions awarded to him are the Reinhold Schneider Prize in 1976 and the Hans Thoma Prize in 1979; he was made a Knight of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2000.
His childhood was marked by war: his father died on the Russian front, and the family home was destroyed by bombing. The source suggests that this experience may have influenced a practice described as finding comfort and security in repetition; this relationship remains framed as a possibility.
This profile brings together identity references for Peter Dreher and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
Artcurial Beurret Bailly Widmer · Koller · Kornfeld · Lempertz
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Oil on canvas
Tag um Tag guter Tag (II), Nr. 1858
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2025-10-28
Published result : 5081 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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Oil on canvas
Tag um Tag guter Tag (I), Nr. 1941
huile sur toile
Catalogue period : 2025-10-28
Published result : 5208 CHF
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : CHF 4000–6000
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Oil on artist’s board
Ohne Titel (NY Silverbowl)
Öl auf Malkarton
Auction date : 2022-12-03
Published result : 7560 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Oil on canvas
Missis Robinson 583 (Tag um Tag guter Tag)
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2022-06-02
Published result : 11970 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Oil on canvas
Brendel 604 (Tag um Tag guter Tag)
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2022-06-02
Published result : 11970 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Oil on canvas
628 (Tag um Tag guter Tag)
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2022-06-02
Published result : 10710 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Oil on canvas
Tag um Tag guter Tag (486)
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2021-12-04
Published result : 11875 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Oil on canvas
Tag um Tag ist guter Tag II (1460)
Öl auf Leinwand
Auction date : 2020-12-09
Published result : 9375 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 8000
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Oil on canvas
Nr. 495. 1991.
oil on canvas
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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Tag um Tag ist guter Tag I - Nr. 1446
oil on canvas
Date to be documented
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
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