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WERNER DREWES

 

1899	Born, Canig, Germany
1919/21	Studied architecture in Berlin and Stuttgart
1921/22	Studied with Johannes Itten and Paul Kleeat the Bauhaus, Weimar
1923/27	Traveled in Italy and Spain, staying Old Masters. Continued around the world as portrait painter and printmaker.
1927/28	Returned to the Bauhaus under Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger
1930	Emigrated to the United States
1937	Was founding member of American Abstract Artists in New York
1937/40	Instructor at Columbia University, New York
1941/42	Technical Supervisor, Graphics Division, Federal Arts Project, New York
1946/65	Professor of Design and Director of First Year Program, School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis
1961	One man show, Cleveland Museum of Art
1962	One man show, Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Museum of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1966	One man show, Everhart Museum, Scranton
1968	One man show, Trenton State College
1969	One man show, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1974/75	One man traveling State Department show to Turkey and Latin America
1978	One man traveling show to nine cities in West Germany
1979	One man show, Washington University, St. Louis
1982	One man shows in Bonn, West Germany and Washington, DC
1983	One man show, Associated American Artists, New York
1984	Retrospective, National Museum of American Arts, Washington, DC
1985	Died, Reston, Virginia
1986, '90,'92, '94, '97, 2001, '03	One man shows at Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles

Bibliography:

Martina R. Norelli WERNER DREWES, Sixty Five Years of Printmaking
            National Museum of American Art 1984

Franz Geierhaas & Brigitte Hellgoth , THE CREATIVE ACT
            International Print Society 1984

Ingrid Rose WERNER DREWES A Catalogue Raisonne of his Prints
            Verlag Kunstgalerie Esslingen, Munich-New York 1984