Formulation: Articulation II, Plate 16
Formulation: Articulation II, Plate 16, 1972, Serigraph
Josef Albers (German-born, American, 1888 – 1976)
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Initially trained as a public schoolteacher, Josef Albers joined the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany in 1922 as a student. He soon became a professor at the Bauhaus and taught co-operatively with Paul Klee in the glass workshops. When the Bauhaus was closed in 1933 by the German government, Albers immigrated to the United States with his wife Anni (Fleischmann) Albers, a celebrated textile designer. At that point, Josef and Anni Albers joined the faculty at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. In 1950, Josef Albers left Black Mountain to head the Department of Design at Yale University. Of the artists on view in Double Take: Series, Multiples, and Prints, Audrey Flack and Robert Rauschenberg were both pupils of Josef Albers.
