Drewes, Werner (1899 Canig - 1985 Reston/Virginia)

Lot 1543 limit € 30

Woodcut, male portrait, signed in pencil lower right, numbered "7/XXX" lower left, signs of age (including slight creases and foxing), sheet approx. 32.5 x 40.5 cm, from 1921 studied at the Weimar Bauhaus with Paul Klee and Johannes Itten and later in Dessau with László Moholy-Nagy and Wassily Kandinsky, 1930 emigrated to the United States, ibid. teacher at the Brooklyn Museum and at Columbia University, from 1946 professorship for design at Washington University in St. Louis, works among others in the Smithsonian Museum of American Art Washington, in the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art New York or in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston