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|  Dorothea Dreier, Katherine Dreiers sister, was a post-impressionist painter.
She was the daughter of Dorothea Adelheid and John Caspar Theodor Dreier, both immigrants who had come from Bremen, Germany in 1849. Theodor settled in New York and eventually became a partner in an important iron company. Their daughter Dorothea was one of five children.
None of the children were allowed to go to college, but Dorothea studied art with Walter Shirlaw, as did her artist sister, Katherine. There was a strong identification in the Dreier home with German culture, and the family often traveled to Europe to visit relatives.
Some of her works are in the Societe Anonyme Collection at Yale University. Several of Dorotheas views of New York and Europe were painted as early as 1908, and have been compared with Paula Modersohn-Beckers.
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