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| City, 1923 |
Friedrich Peter Drömmer (1889-1968) was a German expressionistic artist nearly forgotten today. Born in Kiel, he studied in Weimar. Under the impression of the revolutionary events of 1918-1919, in Kiel as well as in Berlin, he produced a series of paintings depicting the failed uprisings.
He joined a progressive artist group working in the Expressionistic style. The group organized exhibitions in Kiel, with the intention of overcoming Kiel's reactionary image as the principal Prussian navy base. There, Drömmer first showed his architectural phantasies, paintings between Gothic cathedral and prismatic abstraction symbolizing the social and cultural utopia of a classless society, and reminescent of similar ideas by Lyonel Feininger and Wenzel Hablik.
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| The card player, 1919 |
Those architectonic inspired works put him into contact with The Bauhaus in Dessau. Between 1923 and 1933, he directed the design department of the Junkers-Werke, also located in Dessau, and at that time Germany's largest aeroplane manufacturer.
After Hitler came to power, he was arrested, and, since 1935, had to work as a freelance designer. Shortly after the war, he suffered a physical and mental breakdown. He died in 1968 .
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| The Revolutionary, 1919 |
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