Josef Albers began using glass as a primary medium, fusing together pieces he salvaged from the Weimar, Germany, garbage dump, when he started studying at Bauhaus in 1920 at the age of 32. His ...
In these turbulent times, creativity and empathy are more necessary than ever to bridge divides and find solutions. Artnet News’s Art and Empathy Project is an ongoing investigation into how the art ...
The director of the Josef Albers Foundation deemed the painting a fake in 2016. A similar work from Josef Albers's series, Homage to the Square (1971) © 2017 The ...
Looking for fresh color inspiration? TikTokers and beyond are turning to iconic artist and Bauhaus educator Josef Albers to draw interior design inspiration, and specifically color scheme guidance, ...
It wasn’t his art history degree from Columbia University that would lead Nicholas Fox Weber, now the Executive Director of the Albers Foundation, into the art world. It was romance. Or, more ...
The Josef Albers in Mexico exhibition is a necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence.
Like many artists of his time, including Pablo Picasso, the famed artist and theorist Josef Albers culled from the cultural artifacts of less appreciated cultures to find inspiration. With his wife, ...
Josef Albers, “Color Study of Grays” (not dated). Oil on cardstock with varnish, 17.9 x 25.7 cm. © 2012 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights ...
"Josef Albers: Interaction" : June 16, 2018-October 7, 2018, Villa Hügel, Essen, Germany. Contents The square in the villa / Susanne Henle, Volker Troche -- Josef Albers: Exile and emigré / Brenda ...
The microfilm collection of the Josef Albers letters to J. B. Neumann contains 40 letters, primarily in German, written to J. B. Neumann by Josef Albers. Also included is an article on Albers written ...
Josef Albers (1888-1976) was born in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany. Albers enrolled as a student in the preliminary course (Vorkurs) of Johannes Itten at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1920. Although, Albers ...