Benedikt Dreyer (born before 1495 - died after 1555) was a German sculptor, carver and painter working in
Lübeck.
Dreyer was an
apprentice in
Lüneburg (1506–1507), and was a house owner in Lübeck until 1555, according to the land register.
He made a
Gothic
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altar (1522), the "
Antonius altar" from Burg Church in Lübeck, which is part of the remarkable collection of
medieval art
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in the
St. Annen Museum in Lübeck. Another altar also in the same museum is attributed to him: the "
Last Judgment
The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Reckoning, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, Doomsday, Day of Resurrection or The Day of the Lord (; ar, یوم القيامة, translit=Yawm al-Qiyāmah or ar, یوم الدین, translit=Yawm ad-Dīn, ...
" altar from Tramm Church in the district of
Lauenburg.
Another altar attributed to Dreyer, that from
Birket Church in
Lolland
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, is in the collection of
The National Museum of Denmark
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in
Copenhagen.
Attributed to him also is "God the Father with the Dead Christ" (1513–20) at Heiligengeist Hospital in Lübeck.
1490s births
German sculptors
German male sculptors
16th-century German painters
German male painters
Artists from Lübeck
1550s deaths
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