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Josef Albers
Bottrop, Germany
Archival Overview
German-American painter, color theorist, and educator whose monumental series 'Homage to the Square' and teachings at Black Mountain College and Yale defined modern color theory.
Biographical Record
Josef Albers began his career at the Bauhaus, rising from student to master and directing the preliminary design course (Vorkurs) alongside Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Following the closure of the Bauhaus by the Gestapo in 1933, Albers and his wife Anni emigrated to the United States to lead the art department at the legendary Black Mountain College.
Later serving as chair of the design department at Yale University, Albers published his seminal treatise 'Interaction of Color' in 1963. His 26-year project, 'Homage to the Square', utilized nested geometric squares to prove that colors are in perpetual flux, dictated entirely by optical juxtaposition.
Key Life Milestones
Homage to the Square
Initiated his definitive serial painting project exploring the infinite optical relativity of color.
Publication of Interaction of Color
Published the definitive pedagogical handbook on color perception and chromatic relativity.
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Final Resting Place
Perpetual MemorialNew Haven, United States