36. Werner Drewes
(1899-1985)

The City (Carcassonne)

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Drewes, The City (Carcassonne)

The City (Carcassonne)

Watercolor with gouache and gold, 1923, 221 x 300 mm. Wonderfully abstract, Klee-like watercolor in brilliant colors and gold on brownish wove paper, signed and dated in the image and inscribed "Ca…." Though Drewes is not mentioned as having been specifically in Carcassonne, he was in Marseilles in 1923 and in Madrid later that same year. Carcassonne is not far off the route. In 1923-24, Drewes was on leave from studying at the Bauhaus where, both before and after his travels in Italy, France, Spain and South America, he studied with Klee among others. In 1930 he came to the United States and from that point considered himself an American artist. But this work is well before that and clearly representative of Bauhaus art.