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Werner Drewes    (German/American, 1899-1985)

 Werner Drewes - Forms in Balance (Paintings) h: 22 x w: 16 in / h: 55.9 x w: 40.6 cm
Werner Drewes
Forms in Balance 1949
 
  

Biography
Purchase Prize 25th Anniv. National Fine Prints Competition, AAA, NYC
Death Reston, VA
Founding member of American Abstract Artists
Faculty Member School of Fine Arts, Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO
Worked with Max Beckmann Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Education w/Klee, Itten & Schlemmer Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany
Left Germany & Emigrated to USA NYC
Joined American Artists Congress
Birth Canig, Germany
Education Technische Hochschule, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany
Education Stuttgart School of Arts and Crafts, Stuttgart, Germany

Exhibitions
1996 "Werner Drewes: Paintings and Works on Paper", AAA NYC
1985 Memorial Exhibition, AAA NYC
1984 "65 Years of Printmaking", National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Inst. Washington, D.C.
1965 Retrospective, Washington University St. Louis, MO
1959 25th Anniversary National Fine Prints Competition, AAA NYC
1936 Société Anonyme, Black Mountain College N. Carolina
1931 Société Anonyme, Buffalo, NY
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