Werner Drewes lithograph, Nocturne, 10 of XX
Approximate dimensions:
Sight to mat: 12 inches x 19 inches.
Total dimensions: 20.25 inches x 26.75 inches.

Werner Drewes was an American painter who was born in 1899. His work is currently being shown at Sullivan Goss. Werner Drewes work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 25 USD to 75,975 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 75,975 USD for Expectation of New Events, sold at Bonhams New York in 2022. Werner Drewes has been featured in articles for Christie's Daily, ARTFIXdaily and New York Times. The most recent article is Academy Art Museum opens three new exhibitions written for ArtDaily in January 2022. The artist died in 1985. (MutualArt.com)

Werner Drewes was born in Canig, Germany, and began studying art in 1920 at the Stuttgart School of Architecture. A year later he transferred to the Stuttgart School of Arts and Crafts. From 1921 to 1922, he studied with Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, and Oskar Schlemmer at the Bauhaus in Weimar. After visiting the United States in 1924 and 1925, Drewes returned to work at the Bauhaus. In 1930 he came back to the United States, where he was introduced by Wassily Kandinsky to Katherine C. Dreier, a founder of the Societe Anonyme, and exhibited his work in Buffalo, New York. From 1934 to 1936, Drewes taught at the Brooklyn Museum under the auspices of the WPA Federal Art Project. In 1936, the year he became an American citizen, Drewes joined the American Artists Congress, exhibited at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and helped found the American Abstract Artists group. A member of the faculty at Columbia University in New York from 1937 to 1940, Drewes also served as director of graphic art for the WPA Federal Art Project in New York in 1940. In 1944 he studied printmaking at Stanley William Hayters Atelier 17. The following year he taught at Brooklyn College. In 1946 he joined the faculty of the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, where he remained until 1965. (contemporaryartscenter.org)

Good condition overall