William Wauer (1866-1962), took up his studies of art at the Akademie in Dresden. He continued his studies at the academies in Berlin and in Munich. Wauer left Germany in 1888 for the United States -- where he lived in San Francisco and New York. He went to Berlin in 1898 to become editor of the monthly theater journal "Quickborn". He also spent this time making designs for the advertising departments of companies such as Kupferberg, Stollwerck and the Lingerwerke. Wauer returned at the beginning of the century to Dresden where he founded the "Dresdner Tagesanzeiger" , a journal which was dedicated to the fine arts and the theatre. He became so well known in the theatre world that he was invited to the Deutsche Theater by Max Reinhardt when he returned to Berlin in 1905. In 1917 Wauer began painting, and then turned to sculpture, presenting his works regularly from 1918 onwards at the 'Sturm'-Galerie. In 1924 he became the president of an artistic group representing Expressionists, Cubists, Futurists and Constructivists ,"Die Abstakten" but by 1933 the Nazis would not permit him to work.
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