Albers, Josef b. March 19, 1888 d. March 25, 1976 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...[Read More] (Bio by: Jan Franco) Orange Center Cemetery, Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA
b. March 19, 1888 d. March 25, 1976