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Werner Drewes                                                                                 Color woodcut
Curves Shapes, 1943

(Sample Gallery Show article from Spring 2000)
Werner Drewes; Essential Forms
March 18-April 29, 2000
at Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

    Throughout his long career, Werner Drewes brought the influences of German Expressionism into his art through his training at the Bauhaus under Klee, Kandinsky, Itten & Schlemmer. He traveled extensively from the 1920s exploring the Americas and Asia, particularly responding to the splendor and vastness of the American Southwest. He created dynamic evolving forms in landscape and figuration, largely derived from the vistas he experienced during these journeys.

    In 1930, Drewes and his wife moved to New York, commemorated in his early portfolio of woodcuts on the urban architecture of Manhattan. He participated in the first exhibition of the American Abstract Artists group as a founder in 1937. While teaching color and design at Columbia University, Drewes helped to design the theme and buildings 

for the 1939 World's Fair in New York and San Francisco. By the 1940s, he began to influence subsequent generations through his tenure at Washington University in St. Louis.

    Drewes developed highly energized forms as he moved between pure abstraction and expressionistic figuration. He was greatly influenced by the visual impact of his environment and had a deep social consciousness, having also been exposed to the harsh realities of two world wars. As he progressed, his imagery became stronger in palette with less commitment to the figurative in favor of essential forms.

    Whether in bold woodcuts, subtle etchings, sun filled watercolors, dramatic canvasses or fresh collages - in all his chosen media - Werner Drewes made important contributions in the evolution of American art history. We honor him.