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Werner Drewes ( - 1985) is a well listed painter and printmaker who was born in Canig, Germany. He began his art studies at the Stuttgart School of Architecture in 1920 but he transferred to the Stuttgart School of Arts and Crafts in 1921. After that, he began studies with Paul Klee, Johannes Itten and Oskar Schlemmer at the famous Bauhaus School in Weimar. Drewes visited the USA in the mid- 1920s and returned to the Bauhaus. In 1930, he game back to the United States where he was introduced to the art world by Wassily Kandinsky and he began exhibiting his work in Buffalo, N.Y. From 1934-1936, he taught art at the Brooklyn Museum under the auspices of the WPA Federal Arts Project. He became a U.S. citizen in 1936 and taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina for a while. He later helped to form the American Abstract Artists Group and became a faculty member at Columbia University. He also served as director of graphic art for the WPA Federal Arts project in New York in 1940. In 1944, he studied printmaking at Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17. The following year, he joined the faculty at the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. He is primarily known as a printmaker who used a wide variety of printmaking techniques and his artworks are in many important museums and collections.
Artwork for sale is an abstract oil painting on board that is signed "Drewes" at the lower right (see photo 2). The painting is very much in the style of Kandinsky who was a teacher and mentor of Werner Drewes. Height of the painting is 17" and the width is 15". The painting is in a simple gold wooden frame. Looks like the strong influence of precisionist style or constructivism. There is a wide variety of concentric circles, rectangles, and triangles in bold colors like brown, maroon, white, gray, green and blues. There are very similar artworks on right now and the asking price is around $5,000.00. There is no certificate of authenticity on those pieces nor on this item.
