October 23 – November 16, 2024
Josef Albers
Galerie Boisserée
In Person Viewing:
Drususgasse 7-11
D – 50667 Cologne
Online Viewing:
https://www.galerie-boisseree.com/en/artists/josef-albers.html
Wednesday, October 23rd, 6:30 PM
Josef Albers (Bottrop 1888–1976 New Haven, Connecticut), explored the artistic dimension of colour and the relationship of colours to each other. Around 1950, he found the ideal form for colour in the square.
Following his academic training in Berlin, Essen and Munich, he began studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1920 and took on a teaching position there in 1923. In 1932, when Mies van der Rohe was named head of the Bauhaus, Albers became his deputy. When the Bauhaus was closed by the National Socialists in 1933, he was appointed to the Black Mountain College in Ashville, North Carolina and moved to the USA with his wife, the famous Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers. The move to the United States marked the beginning of a new period in the artist’s career.
