Artist: Josef Albers (1888 - 1976)
Nationality: German
Movement: Bauhaus School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Josef Albers received his formal art training in German art schools in Berlin, Essen, Munich, and the Bauhaus in Weimar. After completing his education, Albers worked as a furniture designer while developing his abstract art. Forced to leave Germany by the Nazis, he moved to the United States and taught at Black Mountain College and Yale University. By the 1950’s, Albers was working strictly with geometric shapes and color, studying the relationships between the two.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Homage to the Square, Josef Albers (Germany, Bernstadt, 1888 - 1976) , 1957, Oil on masonite
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Homage to the Square, Josef Albers (Germany, Bernstadt, 1888 - 1976) , 1951-1955, Oil on masonite
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Homage to the Square: Dissolving/Vanishing, Josef Albers (Germany, Bernstadt, 1888 - 1976) , 1951, Oil on masonite
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Josef Albers, Josef Breitenbach (Germany, 1896 - 1984) , 1944, printed circa 1968, Gelatin-silver print
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Homage to the Square, Josef Albers (Germany, Bernstadt, 1888 - 1976) , 1951, Oil on masonite
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Josef Albers I-S LXX b. Screenprint 1970
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Josef Albers Untitled etching 1962
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Josef Albers - Four X's In Red 1938 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers Variant: MMA-3 color screenprint 1970
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Josef Albers Pillars Color screenprint 1928
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Josef Albers Multiplex D woodcut 1948
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Josef Albers - Duo F 1959 inkless intaglio on Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers Homage to the Square: MMA-2 color screenprint 1970
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Josef Albers Homage to the Square: MMA-1 color screenprint 1970
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Josef Albers Red-Orange Wall 1959 Color screenprint 1970
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Josef Albers - Fugue II 1925 sandblasted and pain Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Steps 1931 gouach with pencil u Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Latticework c. 1926 sandblasted and pain Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Self Portrait 1916-1918 lithograph on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Ostring III 1916-1918 lithograph on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Window- Picture 1921 glass, wire, painted Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Untitled (Variant) 1973 acrylic on fiberboar Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Untitled (Variant) 1973 acrylic on fiberboar Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Structural Constellation S + S c. 1965 machine-engraved lam Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Structural Constellation Nhb 1957 machine-engraved lam Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Structural Constellation N-31 1964 machine-engraved lam Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Proto-Form (B) 1938 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Bent Black (B) 1940 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - On Tideland 1947-1955 oil on fiberboard Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Josef Albers Poster for "The Critic and the Visual Arts," April 7-10, 1965, The American Federation of Arts Biennial Convention. color screenprint poster 1965
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©Yousuf Karsh ; Yousuf Karsh, Canadian (born in Armenia) 1908 Josef Albers USA, 1966 Photograph,
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Josef Albers - Homage To The Square: Chosen 1966 acrylic on masonite Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Homage To The Square: Midday 1954-1957 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - I-S LXXI-B (Homage To The Square) 1971 serigraph on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Homage To The Square: Glow 1966 acrylic on fiberboar Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Homage to the Square, New Light 1967 acrylic on board The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Josef Albers - Study for Homage to a Square 1954 Oil on Masonite The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
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Josef Albers - Homage To The Square: Elected II 1961 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Study For "Proto-Form B" (No. 1) 1938 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Study For "Proto-Form B" (No. 2) 1938 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Untitled (blue/green) n.d. silkscreen The Hyde Collection American
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Josef Albers - Homage to the Square: Soft Resonance 1962 oil on composition b Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Josef Albers - Homage To The Square: Blue Reminding 1966 color lithograph on Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Homage to the Square: Treasured Enclosure 1954 luminall on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Josef Albers - Study For Homage To The Square: "Last Century" 1956 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Homage to the Square -- Insert 1959 acrylic on fiberboar Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Josef Albers - Study For Homage To The Square:"From The Soil" 1954 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Homage to the Square: Early Rising I 1961 oil and acrylic on c Currier Museum of Art American
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Josef Albers - Study For "Homage To The Square: Nacre" 1965 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Study For "Homage To The Square: Profundo" 1966 oil on fiberboard Hirshhorn Museum American
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Josef Albers - Homage to the Square: Shade around Shade 1962 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Josef Albers - Study For "Homage To The Square: Plaza Blanca" 1968 oil and acrylic on f Hirshhorn Museum American
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Interlinear N 32 bl, Joe Funk , 1962, Lithograph
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Otto Dix - Josef May 1926 oil and other media Cleveland Museum of Art German
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Josef Scharl, Josef Scharl (1896 - 1954) , 1971, Printed material and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Josef Albers - Homage to the Square: "Enclosed Square", from the series Great Ideas of Western Man 1957 oil on fiberboard Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Relief (1980) by NEUHAUS Josef
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Josef Scharl. Temperas, Pastelle, Handzeichnungen, Josef Scharl (1896 - 1954) , March 1973, Printed material with one woodcut on wove paper
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Josef Scharl : Werke aus drei Jahrzehnten : Gemälde, Temperas, Zeichnungen : Ausstellung, 21.11.83-6.3.84, Scharl Josef (1896 - 1954) , 1983, Printed material and six woodcuts on wove paper
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Line Involvements II, Anni Albers (Germany, Berlin, 1899 - 1994) , 1964, Lithograph

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (25)
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Jewish Museum: Anni Albers
From the time she was a young student at the Bauhaus, she created wall hangings that stand on their own as abstract works of art, comparable in their boldness and modernis...
Sarah Myerscough Fine Art: Alex Calinescu at the Albers Foundation
Indeed, the almost meditative trance induced when confronted by Calinescus works clearly reflects the influence of these removed and tranquil surroundings. Circular forms resonate off a monochrome background creating the kinetic sensation of a pu...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Founded in North Carolina in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, a dissident Classical academic, it attracted a star-studded cast of teachers and students who forged a dramatic shift from a Eurocentric art world to a distinctly American one. Rice invited Jo...
Jan van der Donk: Hazel Larsen Archer: Trimming of this Photo is Forbidden
This show indeed documents the faces of the young Cunningham, the young Cage, de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, Dorothea Rockburne, Su san Weil,  Robert Rauschenberg and Ray Johnson. On view are also portraits of Josef and Annie Albers, Charles Olson and ...
Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea: Over One Hundred absolutearts.com Artists to Participate in the Fourth Edition of the Florence Biennale
Internationally renowned artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude will present a projection on their work at the 5th Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art on Thursday, December 8, 2005, at 5pm. At the conclusion of the presentation, Pasqual...
Grey Art Gallery, New York University: Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and '60s
The show allows viewers to see how one artist chose to portray another and to view stellar, but rarely exhibited, works by such renowned artists as Josef Albers, Willem ...
Columbia Museum of Art: Contemporary Prints from the Collection of Jasper Johns, Part II
Visitors to the Museum's permanent collection galleries will find four Focus Galleries dedicated to changing installations of works not ordinarily on view - three on the second floo...
San Diego Museum of Art: The Magician and the Mechanic: Tamarind Lithography Workshop, the Early Years
The prints on display are drawn from SDMA’s collection with additional works generously lent by the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, all of which were donated to their respective museums by San Diego residents Martin and Enid Gleich. Curated...
Bauhaus Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung: Avantgarde in Dialog: Bauhaus, Dada and Expressionism in Japan
Already in 1914 an exhibition organized by Herwarth Walden depicted works from the Sturm-Kuenstler in Tokyo. During the following few years Japanese artists in Paris and Berlin came in direct contact with European avantgarde movements. Influences ...
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Art at Midcentury: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The exhibition opens with art by European and Latin American artists such as Max Ernst and Matta, whose work was to play a defining role in shaping the New Yor...
Iziko-SA National Gallery: Comtemporary Art from the DaimlerChrysler Collection - a Comprehensive Portrait of the Collection
The DaimlerChrysler Collection reflects significant developments in 20th century abstract art, starting with groups of work from the Concrete, Constructivist, Minimalist and Conceptual art movements, then moving on to the most recent international...
Plug In, ICA: Michael  Campbell: Twelve Thousand Years Collapsing into Eight Seconds
Bending history and reality      into a nebulous concoction, Campbell explains: “In past projects I have made connections between the North American      suburban experience with surreal and dream-like narratives. Twelve thousand years conti...
First Street Gallery: Improvisations On Site: Pastels - Nancy Balliett
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Nancy Balliett has been painting for almost thirty years and has appeared in countless group and one-person shows. Her pictures are in many collections, private and public. She works in plein air in both pastels and oi...
Tatar Gallery: Robert Davies: Chromogenesis
Conceptually, Chromogenesis marks Davies’ skilful resolution of major challenges in contemporary abstract art. The works pay homage to earlier colour field artists Ellsworth Kelly and Joseph Albers, and the erudite writings of theorist John Gage (...
Scottish National Portrait Gallery: Photographs by Josef Breitenbach
Breitenbach began taking photographs while travelling as a wine merchant with his family's firm in the 1920s. He established a successful portrait studio in his native Munich in 1932, but as a Jew involved in left-wing politics, was forced to fle...
Washington Art Association: MARK WINSLOW POTTER RETROSPECTIVE
Mark Winslow Potter (1929-1995) is perhaps best known for his brilliantly lit landscapes and scenes of rural life in New England, and in the Adirondacks, where he spent summers throughout his entire life. He received a B...
Cafe Gallery Project: Sybille Berger: New Paintings and Sketches
Berger creates sketches which she makes on canvas at a small scale before choosing each idea. These are displayed in the Long Gallery alongside major works in the Main Space to demonstrate the relationship between the development of the ideas for ...
National Gallery of Art: Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
From its beginnings, Gemini has introduced cutting-edge methods of fabrication to realize the visions of its invited artists, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. We are pleased to present these innovative works by some of t...
Neuberger Museum of Art: there is no eye: Photographs by John Cohen
there is no eye: Photographs by John Cohen features a collection of more than 130 modern black and white photographs that reflect Cohen’s passion for art and music. The exhibition will be on view at the Neuberger Museum of Art from October 17, 200...
Simon Lee Gallery: Heimo Zobernig: Monochromes
Among the selected works for this exhibition will be a number of Zobernig's monochrome paintings spanning two decades. Zobernig's early work in the 1980s can be linked with the latter constructs of the modernist movement, and manifested itself mos...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios
Rauschenberg made his Wadsworth Atheneum debut in 1964, in several guises. His legendary Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) had its first public showing with other early work in the group exhibition Black, White and Grey: Contemporary Painting and ...
Physics Room: MY EYES KEEP ME IN TROUBLE: Touring Group Exhibition Organized by CCNOA Brussels
Included in the exhibition are Justin Andrews (AUS), John Beech (UK/USA), Kjell Bjorgeengen (N), Helen Calder (NZ), Julian Dashper (NZ), Matthew Deleget (USA), Alexandra Dementieva (RUS/B) & Aernoudt Jacobs (B), Ward Denys (B), Billy Gruner (AUS),...
Moderna Museet: Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance shows Modotti's photography between 1923 and 1930 when she was working in Mexico. During the 1920s, together with her A...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Art of Design: Selections from the Architecture and Design Collection
Organized by Joseph Rosa, Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Design, with the assistance of Curatorial Associate Darrin Alfred, this exhibition traces the trajectory of design sensibility within individual artists’ careers and present...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...

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Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Albers - Biography
Josef Albers artist portrait, brief biography and art
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Germany Today - The Bauhaus School - Josef Albers
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Josef Albers, Contemporary Prints at Kass/Meridian

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