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Last Name Drewes

Given Name Werner Bernhard

alt. Names W. B. D. ; Werner Drewes ;

Marriage 1: Margarete / Margaret Schrobsdorff (1895-1959) in 1924 ; 2: Mary Louise Lischer Terhune (1xxx-xxxx) in 1960

Children with 1: Harald (1927-xxxx) and Wolfram (1929-xxxx)

Year born 1899 in Canig, Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany

Year died 1985

Place of death Reston, Virginia

Father's occupation a Lutheran pastor, Georg Drewes

Relatives Martha Schaefer Drewes () (mother)

Education Bauhaus in Weimar, among his teachers were Swiss expressionist painter and theorist Johannes Itten (1888-1967) & Lyonel Charles Feininger (1871-1956)

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for

Patronage

Collaborators French artist Sébastien Laurent (1xxx-1xxx) ; instructor László Moholy-Nagy / born László Weisz (1895-1946) ; instructor Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944) ;

Techniques botanical woodcut ; rather known as an artist

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Archival sources http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=2475&-max=25 ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Drewes

Published sources Further Place of Activity: the United States of America.

other See also: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Werner_Drewes.html . Further Places of Activity: sudied art during travels throughout Italy, Spain, the United States, and Central America in 1923 and 1924 and in 1926 he traveled to San Francisco, Japan, and Korea, thence taking the Trans-Siberian railway to Manchuria, Moscow, and Warsaw. War service in France.

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