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Josef Albers
1888–1976 · German-born American · Based in New Haven, Connecticut, USA (d. 1976)
- Königliche Kunstschule, Berlin
- Kunstgewerbeschule Essen
- Bauhaus Weimar
- Homage to the Square
- Color Theory
- Hard-edge Painting
- Bauhaus Master
Josef Albers studied and taught at the Bauhaus before emigrating to the United States in 1933, where he taught at Black Mountain College and later chaired Yale’s Department of Design. His long Homage to the Square series and book Interaction of Color made perception itself the subject of painting and pedagogy.
Painting; printmaking; glass; design; teaching
Gallery Representation
Major Works
- 1953Homage to the Square: Ascending
- 1959Homage to the Square: Apparition
- 1959Homage to the Square: With Rays
- 1969Homage to the Square: Soft Spoken
- 1966Homage to the Square: Glow
- 1947–55Variant/Adobe series
- 1924Park
- 1928Bowers
- 1921Glass Construction
- 1963Interaction of Color
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