Josef Albers is widely recognized as a crucial figure in 20th-century art, both as an independent practitioner and as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale University.
Sarah Meister is Curator in the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York..
The artist died in 1976.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized Albers\' traveling exhibition in 1965 and a retrospective of his work was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1971.
He taught at various institutions throughout America, including Yale University, New Haven, where he lectured for eight years.
In 1949, Albers left the college and began his famous Homage to the Square series.
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In 1936, during his time working at the Black Mountain College in North Carolina, he had his first solo exhibition in New York at J.
About the Author German-born abstract painter Josef Albers laid the foundations for some of the most important art education programs of the 20th century.
An introductory essay by Sarah Hermanson Meister situates them within the contexts of modernist photography, the Bauhaus ethos and of Albers\' own practice.
This publication reproduces each of the Photocollages Albers made at the Bauhaus, presenting the scope of this achievement for the first time.
In 2015 the Museum acquired ten additional photocollages, making its collection the most substantial anywhere outside the Albers Foundation.
Albers\' photographs were first shown at MoMA in a modest exhibition in 1988, when the Museum acquired two photocollages.
These works anticipate concerns that he would pursue throughout his career--the effects of adjacency, the exploration of color through white, black and gray, and the delicate balance between handcraft and mechanical production.
Arguably the least familiar aspect of his extraordinary career was his inventive engagement with photography, only widely known after his death, including his production of approximately 70 Photocollages that feature photographs he made at the Bauhaus between 1928 and 1932.
Albers made paintings, drawings and prints and designed furniture and typography.
Josef Albers is widely recognized as a crucial figure in 20th-century art, both as an independent practitioner and as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and Yale University
