Johannes Driesch

Johannes Driesch (21 November 1901, Krefeld – 18 February 1930, Erfurt) was a German painter, graphic artist, ceramicist and book cover designer.

He came from a large working-class family and began his career as an apprentice stonemason in Krefeld, then spent three semesters at the Kunstgewerbeschule there.

Then, in 1919, he enrolled in the preparatory courses at the Staatliche Bauhaus in Weimar, where he studied with Johannes Itten and Lyonel Feininger.

In 1922, he gave up pottery and became a free-lance artist, with the support of Marcks and the art historian, Walter Kaesbach [de].

After a futile attempt to obtain a Professorship in Düsseldorf, he and his family relocated to Frankfurt am Main in 1928 and opened a studio there.