concise and, at times, downright poetic statement of color theory. Although I use the word “theory” with caution as Albers always asserted that he had not built and was not presenting any new theory of color, only an approach to studying it. ...
Josef and Anni Albers are an emblem of 20th-century modern art. The former challenged color theory through paintings, and the latter exemplified tremendous skill in textile weaving. "Misfits of the Bauhaus" some may call them, but regardless, the ideology and work of the 20th-century artists ...
Josef Albers was a painter, poet, sculptor, teacher, and theoretician of art, important as an innovator of such styles as Colour Field painting and Op art. From 1908 to 1920 Albers studied painting and printmaking in Berlin, Essen, and Munich and taught