Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) - Find A Grave Memorial

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Josef Albers

Birth:	Mar. 19, 1888 Bottrop, Germany
Death:	Mar. 25, 1976 New Haven New Haven County Connecticut, USA
Artist. He gained renown as an abstract artist, color-theorist, teacher and author. Beginning his career in Weimar, Germany, he taught at the famous Bauhaus school of fine arts. He fled from Nazi Germany to the United States in 1933, and taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. After teaching at Yale University, he became a United States citizen in 1939. Starting in 1949, he painted colored squares within squares, using unmixed color directly from the tube. He named this well-known series of hard-edge color interactions, "Homage to the Square", and continued painting these geometric variations for 25 years. As a pioneer of modernism he had an important influence on many of his students, including Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil. He was the first living artist with a retrospective exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York. He and textile artist Anni Fleischman Albers were married for 51 years. (bio by: Jan Franco) Search Amazon for Josef Albers

Burial: Orange Center Cemetery Orange New Haven County Connecticut, USA
Maintained by: Find A Grave Originally Created by: Jan Franco Record added: Oct 06, 2006 Find A Grave Memorial# 16028856