Werner Drewes
- Introduction
- Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States. His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional content of this work was consistently more expressive than formal. Drewes was as highly regarded for his printmaking as for his painting. In his role as teacher as well as artist he was largely responsible for bringing the Bauhaus aesthetic to America.
- Wikidata
- Q2561038
- Nationalities
- American, German
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Collagist, Painter
- Names
- Werner Drewes, Drewes
- Ulan
- 500013191
Exhibitions
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Werner Drewes Fight (1934)
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Various Artists, Werner Drewes, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, Ilya Bolotowsky, Harry Bowden, Byron Browne, Giorgio Cavallon, Arthur N. Christie, Herzl Emanuel, Balcomb Greene, Gertrude Greene, Hananiah Harari, Carl Holty, Ray Eames, Paul Kelpe, M. Kennedy, Ibram Lassaw, Agnes Lyall, George McNeil, Alice Trumbull Mason, George L. K. Morris, John Opper, Ralph M. Rosenborg, Louis Schanker, Charles G. Shaw, Esphyr Slobodkina, Albert Swinden, Rupert D. Turnbull, Vaclav Vytlacil, Fredrick J. Whiteman, Wilfred M. Zogbaum American Abstract Artists 1937
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Werner Drewes Untitled from American Abstract Artists 1937
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Werner Drewes Untitled from American Abstract Artists 1937
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Werner Drewes Mississippi Bluffs 1954
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Werner Drewes Tilting Power 1981
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