ALBERS, JOSEF
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ALBERS, JOSEF (1888–1976), painter and graphic artist; foremost interpreter
of the Bauhaus* following his emigration and widely considered the forerunner
of op art. He was born in the Westphalian town of Bottrop. During 1908–1913
he studied and taught at Berlin's* Ko¨nigliche Kunsthochschule. His teaching
status brought an exemption from military service during World War I. In 1920
he enrolled in Johannes Itten's* introductory Bauhaus course; he remained with
the school until the NSDAP forced its closure in April 1933. He was collaborating
by 1922 on stained-glass projects with Walter Gropius,* and began teamteaching
the introductory course in 1923 with La´szlo´ Moholy-Nagy.* When he
left Germany in 1933, he had studied and taught at the Bauhaus for thirteen
years, longer than any colleague.
Albers emphasized technique and material quality rather than style. His early
lithographs and woodcuts gradually gave way to brightly colored paintings that,
stressing the use of bars and lines, possessed no element of depth or relief.
Emigrating in 1933, he brought his ideas first to North Carolina's Black Mountain College and then, from 1950, to Yale. His comprehensive studies of color
were published as Interaction of Color (1963).
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