Josef Albers

Color as reason

Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator central to modernism and the Bauhaus. His long-running series “Homage to the Square” explores how adjacent colors influence one another through repeated compositional structure.

As a teacher at Black Mountain College and Yale, Albers shaped generations of artists through his emphasis on process, experimentation, and perception.

Josef Albers was a German-American artist known for color studies, geometric abstraction, and influential teaching.

Josef Albers was a German-American artist known for geometric color studies, especially “Homage to the Square,” and his influential pedagogy.

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