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WERNER DREWES - CHRONOLOGY (FROM THE WEBSITE: www.tobeycmossgallery.com) 1899 Born, Canig, Germany 1919/21 Studied architecture in Berlin and Stuttgart 1921/22 Studied with Johannes Itten and Paul Klee at the Bauhaus, Weimar 1923/27 Traveled in Italy and Spain, studying Old Masters. Continued around the world as portrait painter and printmaker. 1927/28 Returned to the Bauhaus under Wassily Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger 1930 Emigrated to the United States 1937 Was founding member of American Abstract Artists in New York 1937/40 Instructor at Columbia University, New York 1941/42 Technical Supervisor, Graphics Division, Federal Arts Project, New York 1946/65 Professor of Design and Director of First Year Program, School of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis 1961 One man show, Cleveland Museum of Art 1962 One man show, Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Museum of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco 1966 One man show, Everhart Museum, Scranton 1968 One man show, Trenton State College 1969 One man show, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC 1974/45 One man traveling State Department show to Turkey and Latin America 1978 One man traveling show to nine cities in West Germany 1979 One man show, Washington University, St. Louis 1982 One man shows in Bonn, West Germany and Washington, DC 1983 One man show, Associated American Artists, New York 1984 Retrospective, National Museum of American Arts, Washington, DC 1985 Died, Reston, Virginia 1986, '90, '92, '94, '97, 2000, '03 One man shows at Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles