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Josef Albers
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Homage to the Square, White Island, 1961
- Oil on hardboard
- 121,5 x 121,5 cm
- Acquired in 1967 with support of the Eugen-und-Agnes-von-Waldthausen-Platzhoff-Museums-Stiftung und der Alfried-Krupp-von-Bohlen-und-Halbach-Stiftung
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- © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
- On view
- CommentaryAlbers had already been working in his first job as teacher when he took up art. His artistic training led him to Essen, where he attended the Handwerker- und Kunstgewerbeschule (later Folkwangschule), Berlin and Munich as well as to the Bauhaus in Weimar (from 1920); there he was taught by Johannes Itten among others. After Itten’s departure, Albers took of the direction of the preliminary course at taught in the so-called texture studies. In the USA where he emigrated in 1933, Albers taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina (to 1949) and at Yale University in New Haven/Connecticut. Among his American students were Kenneth Noland, Robert Rauschenberg, Eva Hesse and Richard Serra, to name but a few.
In the series ›Homage to a Square‹, begun in 1950 Albers took up the theme of optical perception of colors and their interaction in various combinations – a scientific and artistic question which he also explored theoretically (›Interaction of Color‹, 1963). The two-dimensional construction of ›Homage to the Square‹, for which Albers defined four variations and five formats, results from a vertically centered but horizontally downwardly shifted arrangement of different colored squares of various sizes. The colors give rhythm to the progressive staggering of squares and give them a spatial quality.
The artist and teacher Josef Albers is today seen as one of the most important intermediary between European Avant-garde abstract painting before the Second War and US art after 1945 – color field painting, ‘hard edge painting and minimalism. - Provenance1967: Josef Albers, New Haven, Conn.
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