Models · 077
Werner Schreyer
Life & Career
- Born
- 1970-03-10
- Nationality
- Austria
From Vienna abroad
Werner Schreyer was born in Vienna in 1970. His official CV records schooling in Vienna and the beginning of modeling in 1990. Work took him through Milan and Barcelona to Paris, where he lived for years. That movement between languages and production cultures provides a useful starting point for understanding his international career.[1]
Advertising and photographers
Schreyer’s work spans brands including Versace, Armani, Calvin Klein and Gucci, and photographers including Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber and Mario Testino. His editorials move between formal tailoring and more casual scenes. Read chronologically, the work demonstrates how one model adapts to different visual systems rather than belonging to only one label.[2][3]
Training and screen work
Alongside modeling, Schreyer trained in acting and speech in Paris and Los Angeles. His 1990s screen credits include Senso, Élisa, Bandits and Another 9½ Weeks. The documented training matters: sustaining a scene on film requires skills beyond creating an advertising image. His filmography therefore represents a separate strand of professional work.[1][2]
Developing physical skills
His CV also records stunt training and further acting study in Germany in the early 2000s. These entries show continued preparation after he was already established. Modeling and film both involve the body, but their technical demands differ. The training history offers a more complete picture than finished photographs alone.[1]
Painting and exhibition
Schreyer later studied at Zurich’s F+F art and media school; his official chronology gives 2009–2011. The 2012 Vienna exhibition L’autre moi introduced his paintings to a wider public. This can be read as a move from appearing in other people’s images to making his own, rather than automatically assuming painting was an exit from modeling.[1][4]
Continuing across disciplines
His later credits include Brioni, GQ Germany, The Rake and Zoo Magazine, alongside published photographs with his son. Painting and commercial work coexist in this record. Gaps in a database should not be treated as proof of retirement; a public archive does not document every period of a working life.[3][5]
A documented recent campaign
Models.com lists Schreyer in Louis Vuitton’s Fall/Winter 2026 men’s campaign, published in July and photographed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch. That dated credit updates accounts that stop in the 1990s. It provides evidence of recent professional work without requiring assumptions about every intervening year or future plans.[3]