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Josef AlbersJosef Albers
Abstract PainterAbstract Painter
1888-19761888-1976
ab·stract artab·stract art
Art that does not attempt to Art that does not attempt to represent external, recognizable represent external, recognizable reality but seeks to achieve its reality but seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, forms, colorseffect using shapes, forms, colors
Josef Albers was born in
Germany. As a young man he
became an elementary
teacher.
He became an art teacher at the famous Bauhaus Art School.
His first designs were painted on glass.
He became a master of black and white prints.
These are some of his prints.
He loved playing with line and shape.
When the school was forced to close by the Nazis, Albers fled to the United States.
Albers' artwork showed ideas and emotions through simple geometric shapes and ordinary colors.
He became interested in the way
colors made a person feel.
He is sometimes called "the
square man“.
Josef Albers discovered his signature motif, or symbol, the square, when he was sixty-two years old.
Homage to the Square.
Rather than mixing, he used
paints directly
from the tube.
Josef painted more than 1,000 paintings in
his series of paintings based on the Square.
He experimented with color. Each painting has a different color combination.
Later on he experimented with rectangles too.
He even tried using other geometric shapes.
What shapes can you find?
Josef Albers is Josef Albers is remembered remembered most for his most for his paintings of paintings of squares of squares of
different colors.different colors.