DREYER, Benedikt
(b. ~1480 ?, d. ~1555 Lübeck)
German sculptor, carver and painter working in Lübeck. He was an apprentice in Lüneburg (1506-07), and was a house owner in Lübeck until 1555, according to the land register.
He made a Gothic altar (1522), the Antonius Altar for the Burg Church in Lübeck, and the Last Judgment Altar for the church in Tramm in the district of Lauenburg (both in the St. Annen Museum, Lübeck). An altar from Birket Church in Lolland, Denmark, is in the Danish National Gallery in Copenhagen.
