Hans Driever

Hans Driever (1919 - 1994) was a German sculptor and painter.

In 1939 Hans Driever was drafted into the Wehrmacht but deserted a short time later. After a few weeks in a psychiatric institution, he was discharged with the diagnosis “manic-depressive insanity” (Section 51). Further living conditions until the end of the war are unclear.

The artistic work of Hans Driever began in the 1950s, including the interior design of churches: sacred objects such as tabernacles, candelabras, baptismal fonts, door designs, figures of saints. He often together with his second wife, the painter Meta Driever.

In the last two decades of his life, Hans Driever began to increasingly create surrealist oil paintings. These were only exhibited once in a gallery in 1982, the estate is largely unknown to the public.