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Portfolio signature/edition number, photograph of two framed prints and photograph of the artist



Artist Biography

Josef Albers was a German born painter, designer, writer and teacher, who became an American citizen in 1939. He studied and taught at the Bauhaus, where his activities embraced stained glass, typography, and furniture design. When the Bauhaus closed in 1933, Albers emigrated to the USA and joined the faculty of the progressive arts school Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where he ran the painting program until 1949. He was one of the first Bauhaus teachers to move there and one of the most energetic in propagating its ideas.

From 1949 until his death he worked on a long series of paintings called Homage to the Square and it is for these uncompromisingly abstract pictures that he is best known; they consist of three or four squares of carefully planned size set inside one another, painted in flat, usually fairly subdued colours. He favoured the square so much because he believed that of all geometrically regular shapes it best distanced a work of art from nature, emphasizing its man made quality. The hues in which they were painted often demonstrated the tendency of colours placed in proximity to expand or contract, advance or recede in relation to each other.


Portfolio Information, Formulation : Articulation

Joseph Albers, "Art in its very nature is new in formulation, articulation, though constant in its task to reveal and to arouse emotion. All real art is or was modern in its time, daring and new, demonstrating a constant change in seeing and feeling. If revival had been a perpetual virtue, we still would live in caves and earth pits. In art, tradition is to create, not to revive."