Name: WERNER DREWES (1899-1985)
Brand: It Can't Happen Here: Distorted Swastika
Price: 1300.00 USD
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WERNER DREWES (1899-1985)
It Can't Happen Here: Distorted Swastika
linocut, on tissue-thin Japan paper, 1934, signed in pencil, from the edition of 35, with narrow margins, framed
Image: 6¹⁄₈ x 10¹⁄₄ in. (156 x 260 mm.)
Sheet: 7⁵⁄₈ x 11 in. (194 x 279 mm.)

With The Annex Galleries, Santa Rosa, California.
Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, Detroit; acquired from the above in 1994; then by descent to the present owners.

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Like many artists, Werner Drewes immigrated to the United States in the 1930s when Nazi Germany began oppressing citizens' rights and freedoms. After settling in the United States, he became involved in American modern art movements and introduced his peers to the ideas and trends he had learned in Germany's esteemed Bauhaus design school. The present lot was used as the cover image for a series of ten prints by the artist, which celebrated freedom of expression through abstract images that would have been deemed unpatriotic and "degenerate" by the fascists in his homeland.