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WERNER DREWES
1899-1985

Werner Drewes initially studied architecture before enrolling,  in 1921-22, at the Bauhaus in Weimar under Klee, Kandinsky, Itten and Feininger.  For four years - 1923 to 1927 - he travelled the world with his bride, before completing his Bauhaus training in Dessau in 1929.  He emigrated to the United States in 1930, documenting that move to New York through series of woodcuts.  In 1936/37 he was an active founder of the American Abstract Artists and participated in the Federal Arts Project in New York before moving on to a teaching career at Washington University in St. Louis.

As an artist for over sixty five years, he employed various media from drawing and watercolor, through woodcut and etching, to painting and collage.  Translating an early interest in subjective cubistic forms, his work evolved into nonobjective abstraction.  He was creative until the day of his death.


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Werner Drewes Chronology

Exhibitions at Tobey C. Moss Gallery:
2006
 Werner Drewes: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1930s through 1980s
2004 Edmondson vs. Drewes: Relief vs. Intaglio
2003 Werner Drewes
2000 Werner Drewes: Essential Forms
1997 Werner Drewes: Facets of Abstraction, Paintings, Woodcuts, Drawings, Collages 1920s to 1980s
1994 Werner Drewes: Paintings, Watercolors, Prints and Collages, 1920s-1980s
1992 Werner Drewes: A Retrospective View
1990 Werner Drewes: A Retrospective Exhibition
1984 Werner Drewes: Bauhaus Roots Nurtured in America

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