ALBERS, JOSEF
* 19.5.1888 Bottrop, † 25.5.1976 New Haven
The German-American painter, art theorist and educator Josef Albers was born on 19 March 1888 in Bottrop in North Rhine-Westphalia. After receiving an academic education in Berlin, Essen and Munich, Albers began studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1920. In 1923, Walter Gropius put him in charge of the glass painting workshop and two years later he was appointed junior master. After the Bauhaus was closed by the National Socialists in 1933, he emigrated with his wife to the USA, where he taught art at the Black Mountain Institute in North Carolina until 1949. His students included Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell and Robert Rauschenberg. From 1936 onwards, Albers held numerous guest professorships around the world. In 1955 he took part in documenta I and in 1968 in documenta IV in Kassel. Experimentation with colour played a secondary role in his early work. Only when he moved to the United States did he devote more time to the question of colour, as well as to geometric forms and the relationships between them. Alber's famous colour theory ‘The Interaction of Color’, one of his main works, published in 1963, is one of the most important artist books of the 20th century. His artistic oeuvre, which reached its peak with the series ‘Homage to the Square’, was recognised with numerous awards. He was awarded an honorary doctorate a total of 14 times. Both as a teacher and as an artist, Albers was a groundbreaking figure within American painting. His influence on various artistic directions including Op Art, New Abstraction and Color Field Painting was considerable.
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