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Josef Albers

Josef Albers, Study for a Homage to the Square, c. 1970-1973, Oil and graphite on blotting paper, 19 x 19 inches (48.3 x 48.3 cm), Framed: 21 3/8 x 21 3/8 inches (54.3 x 54.3 cm), Inscribed lower right recto, ©Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Courtesy Josef & Anni Albers Foundation and David Zwirner Gallery

PRESENTATION: Josef Albers-Duets

Josef Albers was one of the most influential abstract painters and art teachers of the twentieth century. Albers’s artistic career, which bridged European and American Modernism, consisted mainly of a tightly focused investigation into the perceptual properties of color and spatial relationships. Working with simple geometric forms, Albers sought to …

Josef Albers, Variant/Adobe: 4 Central Warm Colors Surrounded by 2 Blues, 1948, Oil on Masonite 66 x 90,8 cm, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022

PRESENTATION: Anni and Josef Albers

Josef and Anni Albers were among the leading pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Josef Albers was an influential teacher, writer, painter, and color …

Josef Albers, Variant/ Adobe, Orange Front, 1948–58, Oil on Masonite, 59.6 × 68.5 cm, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Gift, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in honor of Philip Rylands for his continued commitment to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection 97.4555, © 2017 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS)-New York

ART CITIES:N.York-Josef Albers

An artist, poet, theoretician, and professor of arts and design at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale University, Josef Albers worked …