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Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel (Prefatio) Poster /// Bauhaus Josef Albers Art1957
1957
About the Item
Artist: (after) Josef Albers (German-American, 1888-1976)
Title: "Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel (Prefatio)"
Year: 1957
Medium: Original Relief Print (Letterpress), Exhibition Poster on light wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Publisher: Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Sheet size: 24.75" x 17.63"
Image size: 11.75" x 15.63"
Condition: A few faint handling creases. Never framed, has been professionally stored away for decades. In excellent condition
Extremely rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Nuremberg, Germany. Poster produced for a special exhibition of Albers' work "Early Pictures from the Twenties and New Works" at the Staatliche Werkkunstschule Kassel from May 28 - June 8, 1957. The image featured on this poster is Albers' 1942 lithograph edition "Prefatio", (Danilowitz No. 103, page 76), from his 1942 "Graphic Tectonics" series of 9 lithographs, (Danilowitz No. 100-108, page 74-79). Printer's imprint upper right.
This is an extremely rare poster being if not the, one of the, earliest documented Josef Albers exhibition posters ever created. There is an example of this very same poster within the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Their example is listed as created/designed by Swiss architect, artist, and designer Max Bill (1908-1994). The MoMA also specifies their example was acquired as a gift directly from the artist Josef Albers himself, solidifying its enormous rarity even more.
GIA Gallery Poster Disclaimer:
Not to be confused with thousands of contemporary inkjet/giclée/digital reproductions ignorantly or deliberately passed off as originals on the market today. The examples we offer here are the original period vintage (exhibition) posters, created and designed by, or under the supervision and authorization of the artist or their respective estate (posthumously), for various exhibitions and events in which they participated. If applicable, this poster is also fully documented within its respective artists' official catalogue raisonné of authentic graphic works, prints, and or posters.
Biography:
Josef Albers, (born March 19, 1888, Bottrop, Ger.—died March 25, 1976, New Haven, Conn., U.S.) 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 elementary school in his native town of Bottrop. In 1920 he enrolled at the newly formed Bauhaus, which was to become the most important design school in Germany. His most important creations of that period included compositions made of coloured glass, as well as examples of furniture design, metalwork, and typography. After 1925, when he became a “master” at the Bauhaus, Albers explored a style of painting characterized by the reiteration of abstract rectilinear patterns and the use of primary colours along with white and black.
In 1933, when the Nazi government closed the Bauhaus, Albers left Germany for the United States. On the recommendation of architect Philip Johnson, Albers organized the fine-arts curriculum at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he taught until 1949. The next year he began a 10-year tenure as chairman of the art department of Yale University. Over the course of his time at these two schools, he counted among his students Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, and Kenneth Noland.
After moving to the United States, Albers concentrated on several series of works that systematically explored the effects of perception. In his series of engravings on plastic Transformations of a Scheme (1948–52) and in the series of drawings Structural Constellations (1953–58), he created complex linear designs, each subject to many possible spatial interpretations. His best-known series of paintings, Homage to the Square (begun in 1950 and continued until his death), restricts its repertory of forms to coloured squares superimposed onto each other. The arrangement of these squares is carefully calculated so that the colour of each square optically alters the sizes, hues, and spatial relationships of the others. These works were exhibited worldwide and formed the basis of the first solo exhibition given to a living artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, in 1971. He died in 1976.
- Creation Year:1957
- Dimensions:Height: 24.75 in (62.87 cm)Width: 17.63 in (44.79 cm)
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- After:Josef Albers (1888 - 1976, American, German)
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- Gallery Location:Saint Augustine, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU121211680712
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