![]() ![]() ![]() In 1923 Albers began teaching the Vorkurs, the introductory class in which new students learned to work with each of the key artists’ materials, along with color theory, composition, construction and design.Īlbers was a polymath, and the multidisciplinary environment of the Bauhaus was fertile ground for his artistic ambitions. The Bauhaus had been established by Walter Gropius in 1919, in the immediate aftermath of World War I, with the hope that its innovative curriculum would foster connections between architecture, art, and traditional crafts. He entered the legendary Bauhaus school in Weimar in 1920. His influential volume on color theory The Interaction of Color was published in 1963.Īlbers was born in Bottrop, Germany, and as a young man he studied art education, earning certification from the Königliche Kunstschule in Berlin in 1915. Albers is widely known for his series of prints and paintings "Homages to the Square," which he created between 19. ![]() With his wife, the textile artist and printmaker Anni Albers (1899–1994), he shaped the development of a generation of American artists and designers through his teaching at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and later at Yale University School of Art, where he was the chairman of the department of design from 1950–1958. ![]() The German-born American painter, writer, and educator Josef Albers was a pioneer of 20th century modernism, and an innovative practitioner of color theory. ![]()
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