228 - W. DREWES (1899-1985), River landscape with trees, 1940, Chalk

W. DREWES (1899-1985), River landscape with trees, 1940, Chalk Werner Drewes (1899 Canig (Lower Lusatia) - 1985 Reston (Virginia)): River landscape with trees, 1940, Chalk Technique: Chalk on Paper Inscription: Lower right signed: "Drewes". Lower right dated: "1940". Date: 1940 Description: Drewes uses dynamic strokes to characterise the tree-lined banks of a calmly flowing body of water. Werner Drewes studied at the Bauhaus in Weimar in the 1920s under Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Johannes Itten, Lyonel Feininger and László Moholy-Nagy, among others. He travelled in Europe, North America and Asia. Drewes left Germany in 1930 and went to New York City, where he taught at Columbia University, among other places. From 1946, he was a professor of design at Washington University in St. Louis and became friends with Max Beckmann. Keywords: Expressionism; Nature; United States of America; USA; Forest; American; 20th century; Modern; Landscape; United States of America; Size: Paper: 21,0 cm x 29,3 cm (8,3 x 11,5 in) Condition: Good condition. Slightly browned along the edges. Single marginal tear right and upper right.