Wortmaler (Word Painter
-Robert Walser & Peter Dreher
The painter Peter Dreher, was a retired professor at the State Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe and head of its Freiburg branch. Robert Walser was a truth thinker whose thoughts “press him to the heart” and whose unbiased and direct vision has always amazed him.
Griot [the publisher] lives up to his name with this project… Paintings, eleven drawings and gouaches by Robert Walser by Dreher are shown in the booklet, and literature, accompanied by the music of Tomasz Edwards, come together to form such an excellent total work of art.«
– Exquisite Autumn /Winter 2018
Robert Walser (1878 – 1956)
Walser was a German speaking Swiss writer. His texts are regarded as among the most important writings of literary modernism.
Peter Dreher (1932-2020)
Dreher was a German artist known for painting landscapes, skulls and flowers. However he may be best known for his project, “Tag um Tag Guter Tag” (Day by Day, Good Day) where he painted the same drinking glass in his studio every day since 1974.
