JOSEF ALBERS (jan 2, 1888 – jan 3, 1978)
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Josef Albers was born in Germany in 1888 (Bottrop, Westphalia). He served as a teacher between 1908 and 1913. He started art studies in 1913. He frequented the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, the Kunstgewerbeschule in Essen, the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, and later between 1920 and 1923, the Bauhaus in Weimar . Since 1923, for ten years, after being a 'cofrade', he will be a 'workshop master' of the Bauhaus. He teaches successively in glass workshops, furniture design, and drawing. He also directs the preliminary courses to the school (as of 1928). Make a set of abstract and geometric windows, square or rectangular panels, white, black, red; he creates series of drawings and engravings in which he makes variations on the line and the color.
He emigrated to the United States in 1933, after the Nazi power closed the Bauhaus (he will take the American nationality in 1939). The artist deepens his research on abstraction. It is interested in the psychic effects caused by the interaction of neighboring colors and that results from an aesthetic experience. Albers continues teaching (Black Mountain College, Harvard, Yale, Pittsburg etc ...). His work and his teaching are considered as precursors of Op Art and Minimalist Art.
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