(after) Josef Albers
Josef Albers Homage to the Square 1977 (Josef Albers prints)
1977

Name: Josef Albers Homage to the Square 1977 (Josef Albers prints)
Brand: (after) Josef Albers
Price: 405 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Josef Albers Homage to the Square 1977: Screen-print in colors on heavy double-folded wove paper from the Verlag Aurel Bongers 1977 monograph approved by Albers shortly before his death (in 1976). Well suited for matting & framing. Medium: Screen-print in colors on double folded thick wove paper. Overall dimensions: 8.875 x 8.875 inches (Image 8 x 8 inches). Very good overall condition with string, crisp, well-preserved colors. Unsigned from a limited edition of 1,500. Published by Verlag Aurel Bongers. Looks fantastic framed. Josef Albers is best known for his seminal “Homage to the Square” series of the 1950s and '60s, which focused on the simplification of form and the interplay of shape and color. “Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature,” he once said. “I prefer to see with closed eyes.” His abstract canvases employed rigid geometric compositions in order to emphasize the optical effects set off by his chosen color palettes. Albers was highly influential as a teacher, first at the Bauhaus in Germany alongside Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and later with posts at Black Mountain College, Yale, and Harvard; he taught courses in design and color theory, and counted among his students such iconic artists as Eva Hesse, Cy Twombly, Richard Anuszkiewicz, and Robert Rauschenberg. He is often cited among the progenitors of Minimalist, Conceptual, and Op art. In 1950, at the age of 62, Albers began his signature series, the Homage to the Square. Over the next 26 years, until his death in 1976, he produced hundreds of variations on the basic compositional scheme of three or four squares set inside each other, with the squares slightly gravitating towards the bottom edge. Related Categories Bauhaus. Minimalist. Minimalism. Mid-Century Modern prints. Linear Forms. Modern and Impressionist Prints. Geometric. Abstract prints. Josef Albers prints.

Creator:

(after) Josef Albers (1888 - 1976, American, German)

Creation Year:

1977

Dimensions:

Height: 8.875 in (22.55 cm)Width: 8.875 in (22.55 cm)

Medium:

Screen,Lithograph

Movement & Style:

Pop Art

Period:

1960-1969