Peter Dreher

Peter Dreher, a renowned post-war artist from Germany, gained critical acclaim for his series of still life paintings featuring an empty water glass placed on a flat surface. From 1974 until his death in 2020, Dreher produced more than 5,000 paintings of the same glass, capturing it at different times of the day, from the same angle, and set against the same backdrop. The series, titled "Tag um Tag Guter Tag" (or "Day by Day, Good Day"), comprises ten-by-eight-inch works that may appear identical at first glance. However, a closer inspection reveals subtle differences in the use of shadow, light, color palette, and technique. Dreher's paintings have been displayed in exhibitions worldwide, including a significant retrospective at the Milton Keynes Museum in the United Kingdom.