Johann Wilhelm Preyer

Preyer’s pictures are carefully planned ensembles of impressive objectivity and calm. He achieves this through the precisely observed appearance of the items depicted and a superb painting technique. Preyer denies himself any personal emotion or ductus. His unmistakable style is the result of this objectivity. Thus his arrangements are seldom in defined pictorial spaces and almost always lack a specific light source and are therefore illuminated, as it were, from within by a neutral, uniform light. 

Wilhelm Preyer moved to Munich in 1837 with Johann Peter Hasenclever for further training. There, in 1840, King Ludwig I acquired the famous painting “Bockbier-Glas” for the Schleißheim Gallery. He returned to Düsseldorf in autumn 1843.