Peter Dreher, Influential German Painter Known for His Observational Style, Has Died at 87

Peter Dreher, the German postwar painter best known for his sprawling observational series of a single empty glass, died on February 18, according to a report in the German-language outlet Neuste Nachrichten. He was 87 years old. The cause of death was not stated.
Dreher came of age in the twilight days of World War II, and his lifelong practice was guided by themes of mortality, repetition, and the passage of time. Though often described by critics as operating somewhere between conceptual and