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Beschreibung:

Size: 66 x 53.5 cm. (= 26 x 21 inch). 1 sheets title page and 8 woodcuts on heavy laid paper. Includes a leaflet with a table of contents. Together in orog. cloth portfolio.

Bemerkung:

*Rose, Catalogue Raisonne of Prints, 309-316. - A large-format portfolio with 8 original woodcuts showing various Native Americans, all signed. The work was published in a small edition of 40 numbered copies (+ 5 artist's copies), here the number 14. Perfectly preserved copy. - Werner Drewes created an "American Indians" portfolio in 1973, which consists of eight woodcuts depicting various Native American tribes. The portfolio includes depictions of the Cheyenne, Cree, Sauk, Sioux, Kickapoo, Blackfoot, Oto, and Apache tribes. Drewes described the series as a personal interpretation of character studies, based on early artists' depictions and his own childhood dreams inspired by Native American stories. - Werner Drewes (*1899 Niederlausitz; ? June 21, 1985 in Virginia, USA) was a German-American painter and printmaker. He studied by Lyonel Feininger and László Moholy-Nagy at the Weimar Bauhaus in the 1920s. He emigrated to the USA in 1930. Drewes was one of the first artists to popularize the groundbreaking concepts of the Bauhaus school in the United States through his painting, printmaking and teaching. He taught printmaking at the Brooklyn Museum, lectured at Stanley William Hayter's Studio 17 and taught painting, drawing and printmaking at Columbia University. In 1937. He was a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group, the first official organization in the United States dedicated to the creation of non-objective art. A major retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 1984 was devoted entirely to his prints.