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Josef Albers (American/German, 1888-1976)
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Josef Albers Study for Homage to the Square 1976
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Biographie |
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1888 |
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Born: Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany |
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1925 |
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Appointed Bauhaus master, Dessau, Germany |
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1939 |
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Became a citizen of the United States |
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1933 - 1948 |
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Taught at Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, NC |
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1948 - 1950 |
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Member of Advisor Council of the Arts, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
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1950 |
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Appointed Director of Department of Design, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
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1975 |
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Died: New Haven, CT |
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Expositions |
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2013 |
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Window to the World. From Durer to Mondrian and Beyond Museo Cantonale d'Arte and Museo d'Arte, Lugano September 16, 2012 to January 6, 2013 Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne January 25 to May 20, 2013 |
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2013 |
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Josef Albers: Spritualità e Rigore (Josef Albers: Spirituality and Rigor) Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia March 19 to June 19, 2013 |
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2012 - 2013 |
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Inventing Abstraction MOMA, New York December 23, 2012 to April 15, 2013 |
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2012 |
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50 Years of Prints - Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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2012 |
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Josef Albers en Amérique - Galerie Keza, Paris |
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2012 |
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Josef Albers - Galerie Denise René - Rive Gauche, Paris |
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2012 |
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Josef Albers en Amérique, Peintures sur papier - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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2012 |
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The Sacred Modernist: Josef Albers as a Catholic Artist - Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork |
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2011 |
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Josef Albers in Amerika - Malerei auf Papier - Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel |
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2011 |
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Josef Albers - Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena |
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2011 |
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Louisiana – on paper Josef Albers - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
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2010 |
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Josef Albers - Formulation: Articulation, 1972 - Peter Blum Gallery, New York City, NY |
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2010 |
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Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect - Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung City |
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2010 |
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Malerei auf Papier - Josef Albers in Amerika - Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich |
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2009 |
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Josef Albers Screenprints - Ruskin Gallery - Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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2009 |
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Josef Albers - Interaction of Color - Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
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2009 |
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Josef Albers - Paintings - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England) |
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2008 |
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Auktion 26, Lehr - Auktionshaus und Galerie, Berlin, Germany Pop and Op, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY |
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2007 |
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Pop Art and its Affinities, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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2006 |
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Group Show, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
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2005 |
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Logical Conclusions, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY |
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2004 |
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The Daimler Art Collection, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, Gauteng Province, South Africa |
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2003 |
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Minimal to the Max - The Brownstone Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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2002 |
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Works on Paper, The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR |
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2001 |
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Astratta, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy |
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2000 |
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Art Concret, Espace de l'art concret, Mouans Sartoux, France |
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1999 |
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Cool and Square, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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1998 |
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The Fervour of DADA, ARKEN Museum of Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen |
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1932 |
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Bauhaus |
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1929 |
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Bauhaus exhibition, The Kunsthalle Basel & the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zürich, Switzerland |
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Publications |
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“A Note on the Arts in Education” American Magazine of Art 29 (April 1936): 233 |
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“Art and General Education.” Yale Alumni Magazine, April 1958, 6-7, 16 |
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Interaction of Color. Small ed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1971, rev. 1974. German ed. (Grundlegung einer Didaktik des Sehens), Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1970, 1977. Japanese ed., Tokyo: David Sha, 1975. French ed. (L’Interaction des Couleurs), Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1974. Spanish ed. (La interacción del color), Madrid: Alianza Forma, 1975, 1989, 1998. Finnish ed. (Varien vuorovaikutus), Helsinki: Vaapa Taidekoulu, 1978, 1979, 1992. Swedish ed. (Farglara om fargers inverkan pa varandra), Stockholmm: Forum, 1983. Italian ed. (Líinterazione del colore), Parma: Pratiche Editrice, 1988, 1991 |
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Weber, Nicholas Fox. The Drawings of Josef Albers. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984 |
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Wick, Rainer K. Teaching at the Bauhaus. Ostfilden-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2000 |
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Benezra, Neal David. The Murals and Sculpture of Josef Albers. Ph.D. Diss., Stanford University, 1983. New York and London: Garland Publishing. Outstanding Dissertations in the Fine Arts, 1985 |
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Borchardt-Hume, Achim (Ed) Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World. Contributions by Hal Foster, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Terence A. Senter, Nicholas Fox Weber, and Michael White. London: Tate Publishing and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. www.tate.org.uk/publishing; www.yalepress.yale.edu |
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Boston University Art Gallery. Josef Albers in Black and White. Essays by John Stomberg, Karen E. Haas, and Brenda Danilowitz. Boston: Boston University; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000 |
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Josef Albers: Paintings, Prints, Projects. Essay by George Heard Hamilton. New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1956 |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Josef Albers: A Retrospective. Essays by Nicholas Fox Weber, Neal D. Benezra, Mary Emma Harris, and Charles Rickart. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and Harry N. Abrams, 1988; Cologne: DuMont Verlag, 1988 |
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