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Josef Albers

SELECTED WORKS
Astatic
1944
Woodcut from plywood on Japanese nacre kozo paper

Edition of 35
Image size: 13 1/4 x 9 inches (33.7 x 22.9 cm)
Paper size: 17 1/2 x 11 1/8 inches (44.5 x 28.3 cm)
Signed and dated “Albers 44” lower right, titled and numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32744)

Structural Constellation 
1955
Machine-engraved plastic laminate in an uneditioned multiple of an unknown number of variants

Image size: 3 1/4 x 4 inches (8.3 x 10.2 cm)
Frame size: 9 x 9 1/2 inches (22.9 x 24.1 cm)
Engraved monogram “A”, dated “‘IX. 27.68” and dedicated “für Anni”
(Inventory #36134)

Interlinear N 65
1962
Zinc plate lithograph

Image size: 18 3/4 x 24 inches (47.6 x 61 cm)
Paper size: 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Edition of 10
(Inventory #19033)

SP V
1967
Screenprint on Schöllers Hammer Board

Edition of 125
Image size: 19 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches (49.5 x 49.5 cm)
Paper size: 24 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches (61.6 x 61.6 cm)
Frame size: 30 3/4 x 30 7/8 inches (78.1 x 78.4 cm)
Signed and dated “A ’67” lower right; titled “SP V” and numbered lower left
(Inventory #28698)

Homage to the Square: Edition Keller Id
1970
Silkscreen on Wove paper

Edition of 125
Image size: 13 13/16 x 13 13/16 inches (35.1 x 35.1 cm)
Paper size: 21 11/16 x 21 11/16 inches (55.1 x 55.1 cm)
Frame size: 24 3/4 x 24 3/4 inches (62.9 x 62.9 cm)
Signed and dated “A ’70” lower right, titled and numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32436)

I-S VV I
1971
Screenprint on American etching paper

Edition of 100, 25 AP
Image size: 12 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches (31.8 x 64.8 cm)
Paper size: 18 1/2 x 31 1/2 inches (47 x 80 cm)
Signed and dated lower right, numbered lower left in graphite
(Inventory #32867)

Additional Information

Josef Albers was born March 19, 1888, in Bottrop, Germany.  From 1905 to 1908, he studied to become a teacher in Büren and then taught in Westphalian primary schools from 1908 to 1913.  After attending the Königliche Kunstschule in Berlin from 1913 to 1915, he was certified as an art teacher. Albers studied lithography in Essen and attended the Academy in Munich before entering the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1920.  There, he initially concentrated on glass painting and in 1922, as a Bauhausgeselle (journeyman), he was in charge of the Bauhaus glass workshop.  In 1923, he began to teach the Vorkurs, a basic design course.  When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, he became Bauhausmeister (professor).  In addition to working in glass and metal, he designed furniture and typography.

After the Bauhaus was forced to close in 1933, Albers emigrated to the United States.  That same year, he became head of the art department at the Black Mountain College, near Asheville, North Carolina, where he continued to teach until 1949.  In 1935, he took the first of many trips to Mexico, and in 1936 was given his first solo show in New York at J.B. Neumann’s New Art Circle.  He became a United States citizen in 1939.  In 1949, Albers began his first studies, in black and white, for the famous Homage to the Square series.

He lectured and taught at various colleges and universities throughout the United States and from 1950 to 1958 served as head of the design department at Yale University, New Haven.  In addition to painting, printmaking, and executing murals and architectural commissions, Albers published poetry, articles, and books on art.  Thus, as a theoretician and teacher, he was an important influence on generations of young artists.  A major Albers exhibition, orgainized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, traveled in South America, Mexico, and the United States from 1965 to 1967, and a retrospective of his work has held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1971.  Albers lived and worked in New Haven, Connecticut, until his death there on March 25, 1976.

–Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York

Josef Albers and Dorothea Rockburne

September 10, 2022
- October 15, 2022

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fair Spring 2021 Online Edition

May 14, 2021
- May 28, 2021

Josef Albers: Structural Constellations (Online Only)

April 15, 2021
- May 13, 2021

Josef Albers and Fred Sandback

May 11, 2019
- June 15, 2019

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fine Art Print Fair, New York 2018

October 24, 2018
- October 28, 2018

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2017

October 26, 2017
- October 29, 2017

The Blue and Then What

March 18, 2017
- April 22, 2017

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Daniel Buren, George Segal, and Kate Shepherd

Darkling

March 18, 2017
- April 22, 2017

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Peter Downsbrough, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Allan McCollum, and Richard Serra

Between Subjects

December 10, 2016
- January 21, 2017

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Mel Bochner, Jan Dibbets, Bronlyn Jones, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, and Sylvia Plimack Mangold

Block Parts

June 18, 2016
- July 29, 2016

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Robert Barry, Michael Beatty, Mel Bochner, Ellsworth Kelly, Allan McCollum, Liliana Porter, Stephen Prina, Kate Shepherd, Richard Smith, and Ana Tiscornia

Inner Space

March 19, 2016
- April 23, 2016

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Barbara Broughel, John Cage, Vija Celmins, and Sol LeWitt

Equal Dimensions

December 12, 2015
- January 30, 2016

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Richard Artschwager, Robert Barry, Mel Bochner, Peter Downsbrough, Erwin Heerich, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Allan McCollum, Giulio Paolini, Liliana Porter, Stephen Prina, Kay Rosen, Robert Ryman, and Fred Sandback

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair, New York 2014

November 5, 2014
- November 9, 2014

Apparent Forms

June 21, 2014
- July 25, 2014

Featuring works by Josef Albers, John Baldessari, Barbara Broughel, Tara Donovan, Barbara Kruger, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Allan McCollum, Liliana Porter, Kate Shepherd, Kiki Smith, Lawrence Weiner, and Ray Charles White

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January 28, 2012
- March 10, 2012

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Robert Barry, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Tara Donovan, Frank Egloff, Dan Flavin, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Allan McCollum, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Kay Rosen, Ed Ruscha, and Fred Sandback

Winter Group Show

December 2, 2006
- January 24, 2007

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Richard Artschwager, Vija Celmins, Chuck Close, Scott Hadfield, Jenny Holzer, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Sally Moore, Julian Opie, Liliana Porter, Fred Sandback, and Kiki Smith

Group Show

June 18, 2005
- July 28, 2005

Featuring works by Josef Albers, Uta Barth, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close, Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer, Alex Katz, Maryellen Latas, Sol LeWitt, Julian Opie, Jeff Perrott, Jonathan Seliger, Kelly Sherman, Bill Thompson, Peter Wegner, and Laura Wulf

Long Playing

March 26, 2005
- May 4, 2005

Record Covers by Artists Josef Albers, Laurie Anderson, Art + Language, Robert Barry, Joseph Beuys, R. Crumb, John Currin, Keith Haring, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, Sol LeWitt, Robert Longo, and others…

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair

November 4, 2004
- November 7, 2004

Josef Albers

February 7, 2004
- March 24, 2004

International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Art Fair

November 6, 2003
- November 9, 2003

Portfolios by Josef Albers, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Allan McCollum and Bill Wheelock

January 19, 2002
- March 13, 2002

Summer Group Show

June 14, 1999
- July 30, 1999

Featuring works by, Josef Albers, Erika Blumenfeld, Lori Bonante, Barbara Broughel, Maggi Brown, noon n. coda, Laura Evans, Tom Friedman, Scott Hadfield, Donald Judd, Maryellen Latas, Sol LeWitt, Pasquale Natale, Necee Regis, Fred Sandback, Kate Shepherd, Jim Stroud, Bill Thompson, and Suzanne Ulrich