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Werner Drewes
CHRONOLOGY 1899 Born July 27 in Canig, Germany. 1907-17 Attended boarding school in Brandenburg/Havel. 1917-18 Served in the German Army in France. 1919 Courses in architecture and design at the Technische Hochschule in Berlin-Charlottenburg. 1920 Courses in architecture and figure drawing at the Stuttgart School of Architecture. 1921 Courses in stained glass and figure drawing at the Stuttgart School of Arts and Crafts. 1921-22 Studied with Paul Klee, Johannes Itten and Oskar Schlemmer at Staatliches BauhausWeimar.
Initiated world tour commencing in Italy and Spain.1923 While in Madrid married childhood sweetheart Margarete Schrobsdorff. 1924 Traveled to Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Cuba and the United States.
Stayed in St. Louis, Missouri. Visited Chicago for three months.1925 Visited New Mexico and California and stayed in San Francisco. 1926 Traveled to Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Moscow and Warsaw. 1927 Returned to the Staatliche Bauhaus in Dessau and took courses with Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer and Wassily Kandinsky. Also worked with Lyonel Feininger and initiated a close and lasting association with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
Birth of first son Harald.
Worked independently and gave private instruction.1929 Birth of second son Wolfram.
Departed Germany and settled in New York City on East 55th Street.
Birth of youngest son Bernard.1930 Introduced to Katherine C. Dreier, a founder of the Société Anonyme, by Kandinsky. Exhibition of paintings with the Société Anonyme in Buffalo.
Bauhaus Dessau forced to close by the Nazis.1931 Published 10 blockprints by drewes - It Can't Happen Here. 1932 Taught drawing and printmaking at the Brooklyn Museum under the auspices of the Federal Arts Project. 1934 Became a U.S. citizen. Joined American Artists Congress and became a founding member of American Abstract Artists. Exhibition with the Société Anonyme at Black Mountain College, North Carolina.
Taught painting, drawing and printmaking at Columbia University, New York.1934-36 Appointed Director of Graphic Art, Federal Arts Project, New York. 1936 Worked with Yves Tanguy, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Karl Schrag, Roberto Matta, André Masson and Jacques Lipschitz at Atelier 17, Stanley William Hayter's printmaking workshop. 1937-40 Worked at Fairchild Industries as aerial map maker. 1940-41 Taught courses in design and printmaking at Brooklyn College. 1944 Invited by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy to teach design at the Institute of Design in Chicago.
Appointed to direct first year program at the School of Fine Arts,1944-45 Washington University, St. Louis. Remained on the faculty until 1965.
Worked with Max Beckmann who taught painting at Washington University.1945 Awarded purchase prize at the 25th Anniversary National Fine Prints Competition, Associated American Artists, New York. 1946 Edition of the color woodcut Reflections published by Associated American Artists. 1947-49 Married Mary Louise Terhune. 1959 Retired from the faculty of Washington University. 1960 Retrospective exhibition presented at Washington University.
Moved to Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania.1965 Moved to Reston, Virginia. 1972 Fire destroys paintings, prints, drawings and watercolors at Princeton gallery. 1973 National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. organized retrospective exhibition: 65 Years of Printmaking. 1984 Died in Reston, Virginia. 1985 Memorial Exhibition, Associated American Artists.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh Valley, Allentown, Pennsylvania
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Museen der Stadt Köln,Cologne, Germany
Wissenschaftlich-Kulturelles Zentrum, Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau, Germany
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
New York Public Library, New York, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Gallery of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri
Library of Congress, Washington DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
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