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Joseph Albers


A German-American painter, born in Bottrop, Westphalia, 1888 died in New Haven, Connecticut, 1976. He studied at the Bauhaus from 1920 to 1923 and later taught there, and in 1933 went into exile in the United States, chairing the art department at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Albers confined himself to the strict geometry of the square as the principal motif of his paintings, and created infinite and subtle variations on that theme; in his work he achieved a rare economy of means. Under his impetus, Black Mountain College became a major center of avant-garde activities in the United States during the forties. Robert Rauschenberg and Kenneth Noland were among his students. Because of Albers's research on the interaction of colors, he is considered one of the fathers of Op Art.

New York: Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum
London: Tate Gallery
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum [p. 848]


[Ferrier, Jean-Louis, Director and Yann le Pichon, Walter D. Glanze [English Translation]. Art of Our Century, The Chronicle of Western Art, 1900 to the Present. New York: Prentice-Hall Editions. 1988.]











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