Artist of the Day: Josef Albers (1888-1976)

Josef Albers was an artist of many talents, but is probably best known as an abstract painter.  Albers was a multi-faceted artist, and is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist, and influenced countless other artists.  Albers was born in Germany, and was part of the Werner Bauhaus until it was closed by Hitler.  After that, in 1933, he emigrated to the United States, and joined Black Mountain College in my home state of North Carolina.  (Find out more about the short lived (24 years) Black Mountain College here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_College).  Albers spent 16 years then, and then went to Yale for the rest of his academic tenure.

Homage to the Square: Park
Color silkscreen after a painting
1967


Wiki on Josef Albers:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Albers

Wiki on Black Mountain College:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_College