Color Theory

Josef Albers

Josef Albers was born on March 19, 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany. He studied in many places such as Berlin, Essen, and Munich. In 1920 he enrolled at the famous Bauhaus in Germany, by 1922 he was teaching at the Bauhaus, and by 1925 he was promoted to professor. When the school was forced to close in 1933 by the Nazi’s, Albers immigrated to the United States where he found work at the Black Mountain Collage in North Carolina. Albers ran the painting department till 1949. In 1950 Albers became the head of the department of design at Yale where he taught until he retired in1958, and then was named Emeritus professor of art a title he held until the day he died in 1976.

1968 was a big year for Josef Albers, he was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and also published his book Interaction of Color. In 1971 Albers was the first living artist to be given a solo retrospective......

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Title: Color Theory
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