JOSEF ALBERS (German/American /
1888-1976)
Josef Albers was born in Westphalia. He studied art in Berlin, Essen, and Munich, before entering the Bauhaus, where he was first a student, then a teacher. When the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis, Albers was among the Bauhaus teachers who emigrated to America, and recreated much of the Bauhaus atmosphere at Black Mountain College, where Albers taught from 1933-1950. His students at Black Mountain included Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly. From 1950 Albers taught at Yale University. Josef Albers was the bridge between constructivism and hard-edge abstraction, and his most famous series of paintings remains his Homage to the Square, in which Albers rings endless colour changes on essentially the same composition. His interest in colour theory is reflected in his monumental book Interaction of Colour (1963), which was illustrated throughout with silkscreens. His work, and that of his wife Anni Albers, is today furthered by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut.
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Selected prints by
JOSEF ALBERS
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Homage to the square,
1963
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