It includes the striking Constructivism - or Geometric Abstraction - of the pioneering Bauhaus designer and teacher
Josef Albers, instrumental in exporting abstract art to the States in the 1930s.
Does the title Borderlands have to do with
Josef Albers' paintings?
Other artists setting records included Jeff Wall,
Josef Albers, Vija Celmins and Sherrie Levin.
The artist, trained in color theory by
Josef Albers, deployed a grayish palette, "both ashen and sallow, highlighted with accents of the nauseous," as E.
16 in the Tibbals Learning Center;
Josef Albers: Colors runs through the same date in the art museum, with The Amazing American Circus Poster: The Strobridge Lithographing Company 1878-1939 also there through Jan.
Josef Albers once told me that nothing new had been done in the theatre since the Bauhaus.
Here he tried to fit into a setting dominated by the German exile
Josef Albers. A strict disciplinarian, Albers did not tolerate deviation of any kind.
From 1920 to 1976 the German-American artist
Josef Albers (1888-1976) made hundreds of paintings and prints in his series "Homage to the Square." From about 1880 to 1940, Old Order Amish women made hundreds of quilts in a kind of homage to the Diamond in the Square and other geometric designs.
The prints of
Josef Albers; a catalogue raisonne, 1915-1976, rev.ed.
The Prints of
Josef Albers: A Catalogue Raisonne 1915-1976 provides a fine survey of the printmaker's life and dreams, examining the periods of his career, his involvements in abstraction and various printmaking processes, and the numerous portfolios he created.
Almost all famous teachers of the Bauhaus school are included in the exhibition: Max Bill, Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer and, as representatives of the students' generation,
Josef Albers and Fritz Winter.