Josef Albers (born March 19, 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia (Germany) - died March 26, 1976 in New Haven, Connecticut), was a German artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century. March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Map of Germany showing Bottrop Bottrop is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine-Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen). ... Westphalia (German: Westfalen) is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, Bielefeld, and Osnabrück and included in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: The Elm City Motto: Official website: www. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

Albers studied art in Berlin, Essen, and Munich before enrolling as a student at the prestigious Weimar Bauhaus in 1920. He began teaching in the preliminary course of the Department of Design in 1922, and was promoted to Professor in 1925, the year the Bauhaus moved to Dessau. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Essen is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. ... Munich and the Bavarian Alps Munich (German: München (pronounced listen) is the largest city and capital of the German Federal State of Bavaria. ... See also Weimar Republic. ... The Bauhaus Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Dessau is a town in Germany on the junction of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the Bundesland (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. ...

With the closure of the Bauhaus under Nazi pressure in 1933, Albers emigrated to the United States and joined the faculty of Black Mountain College, North Carolina, where he ran the painting program until 1949. At Black Mountain his students included Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Motherwell. In 1950 Albers left Black Mountain to head the Department of Design at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut until he retired from teaching in 1958. In 1963 he published "Interaction of Color" which presented his theory that colors were governed by an internal and deceptive logic. Also during this time, he created the abstract album covers of band leader Enoch Light's Command LP records. Albers continued to paint and write, staying in New Haven with his wife, textile artist Anni Albers, until his death. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article is in need of attention. ... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 28th 139,509 km² 805 km 240 km 9. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Willem de Koonings Woman V (1952-53) Willem de Kooning (April 24, 1904-March 19, 1997) an abstract expressionist painter was born in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. ... Robert Rauschenberg is a painter, sculptor, and graphic artist known for helping to redefine American art in the 1950s and 60s, providing an alternative to the then-dominant aesthetic of Abstract Expressionism. ... Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an Abstract Expressionist painter. ... 1950 (MCML in Roman) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Yale University is a private university in New Haven, Connecticut. ... Nickname: The Elm City Motto: Official website: www. ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Cover of Enoch Lights first Command release, Persuasive Percussion Enoch Light (August 18, 1905 - July 31, 1978) was a classical violinist, bandleader, and recording engineer. ... Command Records was a record label founded by Enoch Light and later associated with ABC-Paramount Records. ... Annelise Albers (née Fleischmann) (1899 - May 9, 1994) was a German-American textile artist and printmaker. ...

Accomplished as a designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker and poet, Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist. He favored a very disciplined approach to composition. Most famous of all are the dozens of paintings and prints that make up the series "Homage to the Square." In this rigorous series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with flat colored squares arranged concentrically on the canvas. Black square by Malevitch On White 2, 1924, by Kandinsky Bird in space by Brancusi ,1921, by Piet Mondrian Linear construction by Naum Gabo by Jackson Pollock Abstract art is now generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects in the natural world, but instead uses shapes and...

Albers' theories on art and education were formative for the next generation of artists. His own paintings form the foundation of both hard-edge abstraction and Op art. Hard-edge is a painting style that uses very straight and clean linear patterns and/or lines to create a 3-D effect on a 2-D surface. ... Op art is a term used to described certain paintings made primarily in the 1960s which exploit the fallibilty of the eye through the use of optical illusions. ...

External links

• The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation

Joseph Albers March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... Map of Germany showing Bottrop Bottrop is a city in west central Germany, on the Rhine-Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen). ... Westphalia (German: Westfalen) is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, Bielefeld, and Osnabrück and included in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (86th in leap years). ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: The Elm City Motto: Official website: www. ...

Joseph Albers was born in a family of hookers and porn stars in 1888. He was forced to prostitute himself. His family were very meticulous crafters and took pride in there complicated crafting. As a young man he was inspired by the art works of Cezanne, Matisse, and Cubism. He went to art school at Königliche Kunstschule in Berlin from 1913-1915. He was married to weaver Anni Fleischmann in 1915.

From 1915-1920 he was a art student in Berlin and was known for his creative glass sculptors in which he got the glass from the city dump. In 1923 he started to teach people how to design furniture. He did this for about ten years and then in 1933 he and his family were forced to move to America because of the Nazi pressure on his teaching. In America Albers became a “prolific artist”, known for his paintings "Homage’s to Squares." This series of painting were all perfect squares. The squares were over-lapping and were multi-colored. He chose squares for their man-made quality because squares are never made in nature. If they are colored they also made an optical illusion that “confuses” the watcher. From 1950-1958 he was the Chairmen of the Department of Design at Yale university. Joseph Albers died in 1976 at age 88, very old for the time.