Werner Drewes was a prolific artist and graduate of the Bauhaus diaspora. His vitae includes contributing to the pivotal printmaking studio Atelier 17, exhibiting with Société Anonyme, co-founding the American Abstract Artists group, and showing his retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Often overlooked from the pool of legendary Bauhaus artists and New York modernists, Werner Drewes is currently being rediscovered and spotlighted as one of America’s most influential artists of the 20th century.
The Bauhaus centennial of 2019 marks the opening of the legendary school in Weimar, Germany that was operational from 1919 to 1933. Werner Drewes maintained his devotion to the Bauhaus ideals of function, abstraction, and experimentation beyond his time as a student of the school. After moving to New York from Germany, Drewes spent his artistic career developing new and distinct printmaking techniques and dedicating the later part of his life to teaching. Discover how Drewes continued the Bauhaus legacy and developed a legacy of his own.
