Josef Albers (1888-1976)

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Josef Albers , 1888-1976 Homage to the Square: Joy oil on masonite
Josef Albers (1888-1976)
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(b Bottrop, Ruhr, 19 March 1888; d New Haven, CT, 25 March 1976). Painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, writer and teacher. He worked from 1908 to 1913 as a schoolteacher in Bottrop and from 1913 to 1915 trained as an art teacher at the Königliche Kunstschule in Berlin, where he was exposed to many current art movements and to the work of such Old Masters as Dürer and Holbein. His figurative drawings of the next few years, which he kept hidden and which were discovered only after his death (many now in Orange, CT, Albers Found.), show that he applied these influences to his consistent concern with the simplest and most effective means of communicating his subject; he drew rabbits, schoolgirls and the local landscape in as dispassionate and impersonal a manner as possible. After his studies in Berlin he returned to Bottrop and from 1916 to 1919 began his work as a printmaker at the Kunstgewerbeschule in nearby Essen. In 1919 he went to Munich to study at the Königliche Bayerische Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, where he produced a number of nude drawings and Bavarian landscapes (Orange, CT, Albers Found.).

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JOSEF ALBERS, (AMERICAN/GERMAN 1888-1976), "WLS-I" FROM "WHITE LINES SQUARES"
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*Josef Albers, (American/German, 1888-1976), Formulation: Articulation portfolio, 1972 (a group of five works)