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Place of Birth: Germany
About Werner Drewes
- Werner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher.
- Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States.
- His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional content of this work was consistently more expressive than formal.
- Drewes was as highly regarded for his printmaking as for his painting.
- In his role as teacher as well as artist he was largely responsible for bringing the Bauhaus aesthetic to America.
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