(b Dresden, 9 Jan 1822; d Anticoli di Campagna, nr Rome, 3 Aug 1875). German painter. After studies at the Akademie in Dresden (1836–41) and instruction from the landscape painter Ludwig Richter, Dreber settled permanently in Rome. His Roman Landscape (?1844; Hamburg, Ksthalle) was executed under the influence of Richter’s late Nazarene style. Characterized by linear articulations and a mingled palette, it features rural genre painting and narrative. Subsequently, Dreber was influenced by the classicizing landscape paintings of Josef Anton Koch. He also made further studies of the idealizing landscape tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain. Dreber often sketched from nature in the Roman Campagna and incorporated views recorded there into his painted landscapes, adding staffage based on episodes from Classical literature and the Bible, as well as from contemporary Italian peasant life.