Josef Albers

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Born: 19 March 1888
Place of birth: Bottrop
Died on: 25 March 1976
Nationality: German/ American
Studied at: Berliner Akademie, Kunstgewerbeschule Essen, Münchener Akademie, Bauhaus Weimar
Teachers: Thorn-Prikker, F. v. Stuck
Similar Artists: Victor Vasarely
Era: Postmodernism, contemporary art
Stylistic direction: Op Art, minimalism

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07.06.2019 - 26.04.2020 Von Albers bis Zukunft - Auf den Spuren des Bauhauses - Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld.
25.05.2019 - 26.10.2019 Vertigo. Op Art und eine Geschichte des Schwindels 1520–1970 - MUMOK, Vienna.
08.02.2019 - 28.07.2019 The Bauhaus and Harvard - Harvard Art Museums — Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, Arthur M. Sackler, Carpenter, Cambridge.
09.02.2019 - 28.04.2019 Josef Albers / Donald Judd. Thematic Variations - Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery.
27.07.2018 - 04.11.2018 Josef and Anni Albers - Voyage inside a blind experience - The Glucksman, Cork.
16.06.2018 - 08.10.2018 Josef Albers. Interaction - Villa Hügel, Essen.
19.05.2018 - 03.09.2018 Josef Albers in Mexico - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
03.11.2017 - 18.02.2018 Josef Albers in Mexico - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
04.6. 2017 - 04.02.2018 Artists of Color - MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
21.10.2016 - 27.05.2017 An Imagined Museum. Works from the Centre Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections - Centre Pompidou-Metz.

1958: Cross of Merit First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1964: Medal of the Year des American Institute of Graphic Art, New York.
1967: Award for Painting des Carnegie Institute.
1968: Elected member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York.
1968: Gran Premio "Presidente Frei" der 3. Bienal Americana de Grabadom Santiago de Chile.
1968: Grand Prize for Painting of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
1970: Honorary citizen Bottrop.
1973: Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
1974: Extraordinary member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
1975: Medal of Fine Arts des American Institute of Architects in New York.

Josef and Anni Albers: Art is Everywhere, Documentation by Sedat Pakay, 57min, USA 2006.
Josef Albers teaching at Yale, silent film by John Cohen, 11.33min, USA ca. 1955.

Josef Albers. Life and Work, Charles Darwent, London 2018.
Josef Albers. "So ist Kunst ... Erlebnis", Martina Sauer, Wiesbaden 2018.
Josef Albers. Interaction, exhibition catalog, Heinz Liesbrock und Ulrike Growe (Publ.), Cologne 2018.
Josef Albers: no tricks, no twinkling of the eyes, exhibition catalog, Tone Hansen and Milena Hoegsberg (Publ.), Cologne 2014.
Josef Albers: Learning to see. Josef Albers as a Teacher, from Bauhaus to Yale, exhibition catalog, with texts by Giovanni Iovane, Elisa Nocentini, Gregorio Battistoni, Brenda Danilowitz, Samuele Boncompagni, Roberta Panichi, Bivange 2013.
Malerei auf Papier. Josef Albers in Amerika, Hans Liesbrock (Publ.) Ostfildern 2010.
Nur der Schein trügt nicht. Das Sehen als interaktiver Prozess, Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe (Publ.), Bielefeld 2008.
Anni und Josef Albers. Begegnung mit Lateinamerika, Brenda Danilowitz, Heinz Liesbrock (Publ.), Ostfildern 2007.

POEMS AND DRAWINGS, Josef Albers, New Haven 2006.
Formulation: Articulation, Josef Albers, New York 1972.
Interaction of Color – Grundlegung einer Didaktik des Sehens, Josef Albers, New Haven 1963.

Josef Albers Kunstaspekte Exhibition and collection overview.
The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation Detailed biography, collection and artwork overview.
Josef Albers Museum Biography.