The Josef Albers in Mexico exhibition is a necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence.

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On October 28, MUDEC, Milan’s new ethnographic museum, will launch the exhibition “A Beautiful Confluence: Anni and Josef Albers and the Latin American World,” which will reveal a lesser-known facet ...

Two sets of nested squares, side by side against a white background, share space within a simple aluminum frame. The four squares in each print have exactly the same dimensions. They are exactly the ...

Josef Albers (1888-1976) was born in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany. Albers enrolled as a student in the preliminary course (Vorkurs) of Johannes Itten at the Weimar Bauhaus in 1920. Although, Albers ...

As the artist’s posthumous retrospective opens at SFMOMA, a reporter visits her family home and studio in Noe Valley, the center of her pioneering sculpture practice. By Hilarie M. Sheets There was ...

Josef Albers began using glass as a primary medium, fusing together pieces he salvaged from the Weimar, Germany, garbage dump, when he started studying at Bauhaus in 1920 at the age of 32. His ...

It wasn’t his art history degree from Columbia University that would lead Nicholas Fox Weber, now the Executive Director of the Albers Foundation, into the art world. It was romance. Or, more ...

Josef, the prominent Bauhaus master, influential color theorist and Black Mountain College and Yale University professor, is celebrated for his “Homage to the Square” series of abstract paintings and ...

Josef Albers (1888-1976) was a German born painter, graphic artist, and influential teacher who explored color relationships in his geometrical abstractions. In 1920 at the age of 32, he entered the ...