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Werner DrewesUntitled. Still Life.1942.
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This gouache painting by Werner Drewes was created in 1942. Signed with a pen in the lower right. Cypher and date are just under the signature. Painted to the papers edge - the paper size is 12 3/8 x 17 1/8" (31.4 x 43.4 cm).
Werner Drewes (1899-1985), painter, printmaker, educator and lecturer, was born in Canig, Germany on July 27, 1899. After serving in World War I on the Western Front, Drewes attended the Bauhaus in 1921 where he studied under Paul Klee and Johannes Itten. In the 1920s he visited the United States, living in St. Louis for a year before returning to Berlin. After extensive travel in the United States and Europe, he returned to study under Wassily Kandinsky and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the Bauhaus. With the onset of the Second World War, Drewes immigrated to New York. Despite the Depression, he flourished as both artist and teacher under the Federal Art Project. In 1944 he began working at Atelier 17 in New York, exhibiting in the 1945 exhibition at the Willard Gallery of thirty-five members of Atelier 17 and the MOMA exhibition of August 1944.
He taught printmaking at the Brooklyn Museum, painting, drawing and printmaking at Columbia University and he lectured at Atelier 17. Drewes was a co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group. He became a tenured professor at Washington University in St. Louis, retiring in 1965. After moving to Reston, Virginia in 1972, Drewes continued to exhibit nationally and internationally. A major retrospective of his prints was mounted at the National Museum of American Art in 1984. Werner Drewes died in Reston, Virginia on June 21, 1985.
- Creator:Werner Drewes (1899-1985, American)
- Creation Year:1942.
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:Seller: #800701stDibs: LU33121710383
Werner Drewes
Werner Drewes was a painter, printmaker, and teacher, who was born in Canig, Germany, in 1899. His father, a Lutheran Minister, hoped he would become an architect, but Werner chose the life of an artist. After he served on the front line in France during the war, Werner was admitted to the Bauhaus in 1921, where he studied under Klee, Itten, and Muche. Later, he traveled through Europe to study such old masters as Tintoretto, Velasquez and El Greco. After marrying Margaret Schrobsdorff, they traveled throughout South America, North America and Asia. In 1930, Werner immigrated to New York City with his family. In New York City, despite the Depression, Werner joined other Bauhaus artists such as Piet Mondrian and Lyonel Feininger to make a living as an artist. This group became the core of the American Abstract Artists group. Werner taught at Columbia University, worked on the design of the 1939 World's Fair building, and had shows at the Museum of Modern Art, Kleeman Gallery, and elsewhere. In 1946, he accepted a tenured position at the Washington University in St. Louis. In his later years, he moved to Virginia and continued to show at galleries in Germany, Turkey, and in the United States. The Smithsonian held a show attributing his 65 years as a printmaker at the Museum for American Artists.
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