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Homage to the Square from Formulation: Articulation
By Josef Albers
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Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Homage to the Square, Portfolio II, Folio 33
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Homage to the Square from Formulation: Articulation
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Homage to the Square from Formulation: Articulation
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Homage to the Square from Formulation: Articulation
By Josef Albers
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Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Homage to the Square, Portfolio II, Folio 33
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Homage to the Square from Formulation: Articulation
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Homage to the Square from Formulation: Articulation
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Colossal Building - P1, F22, I1 from Formulation: Articulation (Portfolio)
By Josef Albers
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Portfolio I, Folio 19, Image II from Formulation: Articulation
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"Formulation: Articulation, Portfolio I, Folder 10", Geometric Abstract Design
By Josef Albers
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. Josef Albers was born March 19, 1888, in Bottrop, Germany. He worked from 1908 to 1913 as a
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Variant - P1, F17, I1
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
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Problem in Linear Construction - P2, F10, I1
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Variant - P1, F17, I2
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Homage to the Square - P1, F5, I2
By Josef Albers
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Square - P1, F5, I2 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square - P1, F5, I2
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Square - P1, F5, I2 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square, P2, F8, I1
By Josef Albers
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Homage to the Square - P2, F13, I2
By Josef Albers
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Square - P2, F13, I2 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square, P2, F33, I1
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Square, P2, F33, I1 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square, P2, F33, I2
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Square, P2, F33, I2 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square - P1, F19, I1
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Square - P1, F19, I1 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square - P2, F19, I2
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Square - P2, F19, I2 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square - P1, F19, I2
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Square - P1, F19, I2 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square, P2, F8, I1
By Josef Albers
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From the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental
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Homage to the Square - P1, F20, I1
By Josef Albers
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Square - P1, F20, I1 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square, P2, F33, I2
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Square, P2, F33, I2 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square, P2, F33, I1
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Square, P2, F33, I1 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Homage to the Square - P2, F14, I1
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Square - P2, F14, I1 Josef Albers, German (1888–1976) Portfolio: Formulation: Articulation Date: 1972
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Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 21
By Josef Albers
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JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976) "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 21 Screen-printed
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Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 32
By Josef Albers
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JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976) "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 32 Screen-printed
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Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 24
By Josef Albers
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JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976) "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 24 Screen-printed
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JOSEF ALBERS Formulation: Articulation Portfolio 2, Folder 29, 1972
By Josef Albers
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JOSEF ALBERS Formulation: Articulation Portfolio 2, Folder 20, 1972
By Josef Albers
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Josef Albers Silk Screen Diptych
By Josef Albers
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Josef Albers Formulations - Articulations I & II Print #10 Edition 974/1000 1972 screen-print on
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Josef Albers Homage to the Square Screen Print
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Josef Albers Formulations - Articulations I & II Edition 974/ 1000 1972 screen-print on paper
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Josef Albers from Formulation: Articulation Portfolio
By Josef Albers
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Josef Albers from Formulation: Articulation, 1972. Silkscreen prints, Folio 1 Folder 17. Floated in
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Josef Albers from Formulation: Articulations Portfolio
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Josef Albers from formulation Articulation Portfolio , 1972 (signed on title page). Silkscreen
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Josef Albers, from the Formulation: Articulation Portfolio
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Josef Albers from Formulation: articulation, 1972. Silkscreen prints, folio 1/folder 6. Floated in
Silkscreen Print from Formulation Articulation by Josef Albers
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Silkscreen print from formulation articulation by Josef Albers.
Lithographs by Josef Albers from Formulation and Articulation
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Lithographs by Josef Albers from Formulation and Articulation From Portfolio 1, Folder 27.
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Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
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From the portfolio “Formulation: Articulation” created by Josef Albers in 1972. This monumental
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Variant from the Formulation: Articulation by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers Title: Variant from the Formulation: Articulation portfolio Year: 1972 Medium
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Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant, Portfolio I, Folio 11 , Image 2 from the
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Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant, Portfolio I, Folio 11 , Image 2 from the
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Lithograph by Josef Albers from Formulation and Articulation
By Josef Albers
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Josef Albers abstract lithograph from Formulation and Articulation, published by Harry N. Abrams
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Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
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Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Variant, Portfolio 2, Folio 9 , Image 1 from the
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Josef Albers Abstract Lithograph from Formulation and Articulation
By Josef Albers
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Josef Albers abstract lithograph from formulation and articulation, published by Harry N. Abrams
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Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Silkscreen by Josef Albers
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Untitled from Formulation: Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
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Untitled from Formulation: Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
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Untitled from Formulation Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
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Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
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untitled from Formulation: Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
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Variant from Formulation: Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
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untitled from Formulation: Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
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Untitled from Formulation Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
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Untitled from Formulation: Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
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Untitled from Formulation: Articulation, Framed Silkscreen by Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
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Artist: Josef Albers, German (1888 - 1976) Title: Portfolio 1, Folder 22, Image 1 from Formulation
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The German-born American painter, writer, and educator Josef Albers was a pioneer of 20th century modernism, and an innovative practitioner of color theory. With his wife, the textile artist and printmaker Anni Albers (1899–1994), he shaped the development of a generation of American artists and designers through his teaching at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and later at Yale University School of Art, where he was the chairman of the department of design from 1950–1958. Albers is widely known for his series of prints and paintings "Homages to the Square," which he created between 1950 and 1975. His influential volume on color theory The Interaction of Color was published in 1963.
Albers was born in Bottrop, Germany, and as a young man he studied art education, earning certification from the Königliche Kunstschule in Berlin in 1915. He entered the legendary Bauhaus school in Weimar in 1920. The Bauhaus had been established by Walter Gropius in 1919, in the immediate aftermath of World War I, with the hope that its innovative curriculum would foster connections between architecture, art, and traditional crafts. In 1923 Albers began teaching the Vorkurs, the introductory class in which new students learned to work with each of the key artists’ materials, along with color theory, composition, construction and design.
Albers was a polymath, and the multidisciplinary environment of the Bauhaus was fertile ground for his artistic ambitions. When the school moved from Weimar to Dessau in 1925, he became a full professor, and in addition to glass and metal, he designed typefaces and furniture. While at the Bauhaus, Albers drew inspiration from the work of his colleagues, the color theorist Johannes Itten, and the painter, photographer, and designer László Moholy-Nagy, with whom he co-taught the Vorkurs.
In 1933, the Bauhaus was shut down due to pressure from the Nazi Party, which perceived the school as being sympathetic to communist intellectuals. As Albers’ wife Anni was Jewish, the couple resolved to leave Germany, and settled in rural North Carolina. The architect Philip Johnson helped make arrangements for Albers to join the faculty of Black Mountain College as the head of the painting program, where he remained until 1949. While at Black Mountain, both Josef and Anni Albers became influential mentors to American artists including Ruth Asawa, Cy Twombly, and Robert Rauschenberg, while working alongside fellow professors Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and William de Kooning.
In 1950, Albers joined the faculty of the Yale University School of Art where he would head the newly established Department of Design until his retirement in 1958. In the 1950s, the Alberses began taking trips to Mexico, where the colors and forms of the local art and architecture inspired both artists.
In 1971, Albers became the first living artist whose work was the subject of a solo retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Though they worked in different mediums, Josef and Anni Albers’ work shares a fascination with color and geometry. Josef Albers’ compositions from the "Homages to the Square" series, such as Formulation: Articulation Portfolio II Folder 28 (B), from 1972, give deceptively simple shapes a novel vibrance as colors play off of one another. The hues in Articulation Portfolio II Folder 28 (B) work in concert to give the flat surface the distinct appearance of a tunnel or other three-dimensional space; while the form on the left appears to move towards the viewer, the form on the right seems to lead directly into the canvas. Similarly, Anni Albers’ designs for textiles use graphic design to lend a sense of dynamism to flat works. Her Study for Unexecuted Wall Hanging (Bauhaus), from 1984 is a Mondrian-like pattern for a weaving in which different colors alternately recede and advance into the foreground, giving the image a sense of complexity and uncanny depth.
Josef Albers also created works of public art, including a delicate, geometric gold leaf mural called Two Structural Constellations for the lobby of the Corning Glass building in New York City in 1959. He designed a work called Two Portals for the lobby of the Time & Life Building in 1961, in which which and brown bands move towards two square panels made of bronze. Walter Gropius invited Albers to create a piece for the Pan Am Building, which he was designing with the architectural firm of Emery Roth & Sons. Albers reworked an existing glass piece from his Bauhaus days called City, and, fittingly, renamed it Manhattan.
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