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Josef Albers
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States. Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman Catholic family with a background in craftsmanship, Albers received practical training in diverse skills like engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring during his childhood. He later worked a…
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culture · German-American artist (1888–1976) · painter · university teacher · photographer · designer · printmaker · sculptor · glass artist · educator · artist · also Josef Albers, Joseph Albers, Albers
Born 19 March 1888 · Died 25 March 1976 · Q170071
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2025· 2 entries
Artnet news: Reserved (from Homage to the Square: Ten Works by Josef Albers)
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2024· 1 entry
Hypebeast: Josef Albers' Expansive ‘Formulation: Articulation’ Is on View at David Zwirner
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2022· 1 entry
Forbes: Transcending Modernism, Bauhaus Pioneers Anni And Josef Albers Celebrated In Far-Reaching Retrospective In Valencia, Spain, World Design Capital 2022
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2019· 2 entries
Rochester Institute of Technology: Josef Albers
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His "colossal" mural, Manhattan, was reinstalled at the Walter Gropius-designed 200 Park Avenue (Metlife) Building, New York, following an almost two decade absence
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2017· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Homage to Josef Albers: Writers Pay Tribute to a Pioneer of Abstraction
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2014· 1 entry
Rochester Institute of Technology: Josef Albers - Formulation: Articulation
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2012· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: The Square in the Raw: Josef Albers’ Unguarded Moments
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2010· 1 entry
Smithsonian Magazine: Josef Albers: A Crash Course on How to See Squarely
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2006· 1 entry
"Bauhaus in Mexico", article about the Albers, their trips to Mexico, and the Guggenheim show in 2018
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1997· 1 entry
One year after the auction house, Sotheby's, bought the Andre Emmerich Gallery, the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation did not renew its three-year contract with the gallery
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1981· 1 entry
Alan Lee attempted to refute Albers's general claims about colour experience (that colour deceives continually) and to posit that Albers's system of perceptual education was fundamentally misleading
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1976· 7 entries
At the Yale New Haven Hospital after being admitted for a possible heart ailment
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Died 1976-03-25.
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“In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is — as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.”
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“Every perception of colour is an illusion.. ..we do not see colours as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.”
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Albers left exact specifications of the work so that it could easily be replicated; in 2019, it was replicated and reinstalled in its original place in the Pan Am building, now renamed MetLife
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“In order to use color effectively it is necessary to recognize that color deceives continually.”
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“For me, abstraction is real, probably more real than nature. I'll go further and say that abstraction is nearer my heart. I prefer to see with closed eyes.”
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1971· 2 entries
(nearly five years before his death), Albers founded the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, a nonprofit organization he hoped would further "the revelation and evocation of vision through art"
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Albers was the first living artist to be given a solo show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
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1970· 2 entries
Albers and his wife moved to Orange, Connecticut, where they continued to work in their private studio
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And his wife lived in Orange, Connecticut, where they continued to work in their private studio
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1967· 1 entry
His painted mural Growth (1965) as well as Loggia Wall (1965), a brick relief, were installed on the campus of the Rochester Institute of Technology
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1963· 2 entries
Is considered a seminal work on color theory
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Albers published Interaction of Color, which is a record of an experiential way of studying and teaching color
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1962· 1 entry
As a fellow at Yale, he received a grant from the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies of Fine Arts for an exhibit and lecture on his work
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1959· 1 entry
A gold-leaf mural by Albers, Two Structural Constellations was engraved in the lobby of the Corning Glass Building in Manhattan
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1950· 3 entries
Left for Yale University to head the design department, contributing significantly to its graphic design program
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Albers left Black Mountain to head the department of design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
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Elaine de Kooning concluded that however impersonal his paintings might at first appear, not one of them "could have been painted by any one but Josef Albers himself"
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1949· 1 entry
Albers explored chromatic interactions with nested squares
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1936· 1 entry
Albers was given his first solo show in Manhattan at J
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1933· 2 entries
Albers emigrated to the United States, and he taught at the experimental liberal arts institution Black Mountain College in North Carolina until 1949
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The artists dispersed, most leaving the country
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1929· 1 entry
At the Bauhaus, and renamed it Manhattan
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1925· 2 entries
The year the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, Albers was promoted to professor
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Was promoted to professor and married Anni Fleischmann, a student at the institution and a textile artist
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1923· 1 entry
To teach in the preliminary course 'Werklehre' of the department of design to introduce newcomers to the principles of handicrafts, because Albers came from that background and had appropriate practice and knowledge
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1922· 1 entry
Approaching his chosen medium as a component of architecture and as a stand-alone art form
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1920· 1 entry
Albers joined the Weimar Bauhaus as a student and became a faculty member in 1922, teaching the principles of handicrafts
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1919· 1 entry
Moved to Munich, Germany, to study at the Königliche Bayerische Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, where he was a pupil of Max Doerner and Franz Stuck
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1918· 1 entry
Received his first public commission, Rosa mystica ora pro nobis, a stained-glass window for a church in Bottrop
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1888· 2 entries
Born 1888-03-19.
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In Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman Catholic family with a background in craftsmanship, Albers received practical training in diverse skills like engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring during his childhood
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