Dorothea Adelheid Dreier (1870–1923) was an American

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painter.

Biography

Dreier was born in

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, New York, on December 8, 1870, to German immigrants Dorothea Adelheid and John Caspar Theodor Dreier. Her five siblings included the painter Katherine S. Dreier, social reformer Mary Dreier, and the labor leader

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. The family embraced their German heritage and frequently travel to Europe. Dorothea studied at the

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in New York City under John Twachtman,

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, and Walter Shirlaw. She was a member of the

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. During her life Dreier exhibited at the New York Water Color Society,

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, the

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, and Doré Galleries. She died from tuberculosis on September 14, 1923 in

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. A posthumous retrospective of her work was held at the

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in 1925. Dreier's work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum,

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, and the

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. Her papers are in the

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at the Smithsonian Institution.

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Green-Wood Cemetery Burial Records
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