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WERNER DREWES
Untitled
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Oil over pencil on canvas, 1941. 207x275 mm; 8x10 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower
right recto. Ex-collection Galerie Ultermann, Dortmund, with the label on the frame back.
Drewes (1899-1985) studied at the Weimar Bauhaus from 1921-22 with Paul Klee and
Johannes Itten, and later painting withWassily Kandinsky and the graphic arts with László
Moholy-Nagy at the Dessau Staatliches Bauhaus from 1927-28.
By 1930, as the pressures of pursuing abstract art intensified (seen as degenerate by the
Nazis), Drewes emigrated to NewYork.At the Brooklyn Museum of Art under the Federal
Art Programs, he became an instructor in drawing, eventually rising to the director of the
large graphic arts section in NewYork City from 1940-41. Around this time, he worked
at the newly re-established Atelier 17 under the direction of StanleyW. Hayter.
[7,000/10,000]