Josef albers famous paintings

Josef Albers, born in , was a German-American painter, sculptor, teacher, part, and art theoretician. His color square paintings positioned him as an important innovator of the styles known as Op art and Color Field painting.

Albers studied printmaking and painting in various cities in Germany from to while also teaching at an elementary school in the town of his birth.

In he became a student of the famous colorist, Johannes Itten when he attended the Bauhaus in Weimar.

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He joined the Bauhaus as a stained glass maker and later dabbled in furniture making, typography, and metalwork.

It was only when he became a master at the Bauhaus in that he began to explore a style of painting that included abstract shapes and primary colors.

Albers left Germany in when the Nazi government closed the Bauhaus.

He was invited to curate the fine-arts curriculum at a college in North Carolina where he lived until He then spent a decade at Yale in the capacity of chairman of the art department.

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