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Definition: Albers, Josef from The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide

German painter. Albers fled Germany for America in 1903, where he was influential in introducing the Bauhaus art school concepts, which stressed craftsmanship and a functional approach to design. A series of paintings, Homage to the Square, reveal Albers fascination with colour relationships.

Albers, Josef (1888–1976)

From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
German artist, designer and educator who developed theories relating to the emotional and perceptual impact of colour, line and geometric forms. His bauhaus principles influenced generations of design students. Studied in Berlin, Essen and Munich before joining the Bauhaus, from 1920 until 1923 as a student and then as a teacher, later director, on the preliminary course. Emigrated to the US in 1933 where he held numerous academic posts including professor at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, 1933–49, and professor at Yale University School of Art, 1950–60, where he established the graphic design programme. At Yale he also worked on a series of abstract paintings, collectively entitled Homage to the Square. Disciplined and subtle compositions in flat colours, they consisted of three or four squares set inside one another. Albers's ideas on colour relationships are explored in his book Interaction of Colour, 1963. …
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1888-1976 US painter and designer Born in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, he trained in Berlin, Essen and Munich, and from 1920 was involved with the Bauhaus, where he studied and later taught. There he worked on glass pictures, typography and furniture design. In 1933 he emigrated to the USA where he…
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From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Design Since 1900
Was born in Bottrop, Westphalia, and was the first BAUHAUS student to become a ‘master’. After Johannes ITTEN resigned in 1923 as head of the Preliminary Course, Albers assisted Itten's successor, Laszlo MOHOLY-NAGY . Albers developed the craft element as a complement to Moholy-Nagy's visual…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
(born March 19, 1888, Bottrop, Ger.—died March 25, 1976, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) German-U.S. painter, poet, teacher, and theoretician. He studied and taught at the Bauhaus and in 1933 became one of the first Bauhaus teachers to immigrate to the U.S., where he taught at Black Mountain College and…
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From A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
(19 March 1888–25 March 1976) First a student and then an instructor at the BAUHAUS, Albers emigrated to America soon after that legendary German school was closed by the Nazi authorities, teaching first in North Carolina at BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE until 1949, and then at Yale University until his…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(yō'zĕf äl'bĕrs), 1888–1976, German-American painter, printmaker, designer, and teacher, b. Bottrop, Germany. After working at the Bauhaus (1920–33), Albers and his wife, the textile designer and weaver Anni Albers, emigrated to the United States when Hitler came to power. Albers taught throughout…
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Full text Article Albers, Josef (1888–1976)

From The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers
German artist, designer and educator who developed theories relating to the emotional and perceptual impact of colour, line and geometric forms. His bauhaus principles influenced generations of design students. Studied in Berlin, Essen and Munich before joining the Bauhaus, from 1920 until 1923 as a…
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From A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
(12 June 1899–9 May 1994; b. Annelise Fleischmann) By common consent, the most distinguished modern textile designer, she began in the weaving workshop at the Weimar BAUHAUS, where she met and married JOSEF ALBERS. Likewise she favored geometric imagery in her art. When the school moved to Dessau, …
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German-born US weaver and designer, closely associated with the Bauhaus school of design. She wrote many articles on weaving and industry, as well as two books: Anni Albers: on designing 1959 and Anni Albers: on weaving 1965. Her studies of weave structure, colour, and texture have had a continuing…
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