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werner drewes was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher. considered to be one of the founding fathers of american abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the bauhaus school within the united states. his mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional content of this work was consistently more expressive than formal. drewes was as highly regarded for his printmaking as for his painting. in his role as teacher as well as artist he was largely responsible for bringing the bauhaus aesthetic to america.
A chart of werner drewes's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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