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ID: 500033049
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500033049
 
Record Type: Person
Albers, Josef (German-American painter and theorist, 1888-1976)

Note: Born 19 March 1888; died 25 March 1976. Albers trained as an art teacher at Königliche Kunstschule in Berlin, Germany, from 1913 to 1915. From 1916 to 1919 he began his work as a printmaker at the Kunstgewerbschule in nearby Essen, Germany. In 1919 he went to Munich, Germany, to study at the Königliche Bayerische Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, where he was a pupil of Max Doerner and Frank Stuck. In 1920 he attended the preliminary course (Vorkurs) at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, and was appointed a master in 1923 or 1925. In 1925 Albers moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau, Germany, where he was named master. From 1928 to 1930 he was also in charge of the furniture workshop. In 1932 he moved with the Bauhaus to Berlin. From 1933, after the closure of the Bauhaus in Berlin, until 1949, Albers taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. From 1948 to 1950 or from 1950 to 1958, Albers was professor and chairman of the Department of Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He remained there as a visiting professor until 1960. After his retirement from Yale University, Albers continued to live in New Haven and to paint, monitor his own exhibitions and publications, write, lecture and work on large commissioned sculptures for architectural settings. He was highly regarded as a teacher and is considered influential for the generation of artists emerging in the 1950s and 1960s. Comment on works: abstract

Names:
Albers, Josef (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
Albers, Josef (Dutch-P,NA)
Josef Albers (V,display)
אלברס, יוזף (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)
Albers, Joseph (LU,V)
Albers (LU,U)

Nationalities:
German (preferred)
American
Bavarian
Austrian

Roles:
artist (preferred)
painter
printmaker
theorist
author
designer
photographer
professor
sculptor
teacher
typographer
glass artist

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Bottrop (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)
Died:  New Haven (New Haven county, Connecticut, United States) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Munich (Bavaria, Germany) (inhabited place)
active:   1933-1976  United States (North and Central America) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
colleague of ....  Reinhardt, Ad  
......................  (American painter, collagist, and writer, 1913-1967) [500013982]
fellow student of ....  Hesse, Eva  Yale University
..............................  (American sculptor, born in Germany, 1936-1970) [500026528]
professor at (person to institution) ....  Bauhaus  
................................................................  (German art school, 1919-1933) [500125058]
student of ....  Doerner, Max  
..................  (German painter, 1870-1939) [500568776]
student of ....  Franck, Philipp  
..................  (German painter and etcher, 1860-1944) [500023945]
student of ....  Stuck, Frantz von  
..................  (German painter, sculptor, and draftsman, 1863-1928) [500006652]
teacher at (person to institution) ....  Black Mountain College  
............................................................  (American liberal arts college, active 1933-1957) [500125890]
teacher of ....  Anuszkiewicz, Richard  
..................  (American painter, 1930-2020) [500025580]
teacher of ....  Bailey, William  
..................  (American painter and draftsman, 1930-2020) [500008272]
teacher of ....  Batz, Eugen  
..................  (German painter, printmaker, sculptor, and photographer, 1905-1984) [500016686]
teacher of ....  Beard, Peter  
..................  (American photographer, 1938-2020, active in Kenya) [500386487]
teacher of ....  Brandt, Marianne  
..................  (German metalworker and designer, 1893-1984) [500019983]
teacher of ....  Bransby, Eric James  
..................  (American artist, 1916-2020) [500778702]
teacher of ....  Clemens, Roman  
..................  (German painter, sculptor, and architect, 1910-1922) [500102349]
teacher of ....  Davidson, Bruce  
..................  (American photographer, born 1933) [500037020]
teacher of ....  Ehrhardt, Alfred  
..................  (German photographer and filmmaker, 1901-1984) [500037002]
teacher of ....  Ehrlich, Franz  
..................  (German architect and artist, 1907-1984) [500102829]
teacher of ....  Feininger, T. Lux  
..................  (American painter and photographer, 1910-2011, born in Germany) [500021971]
teacher of ....  Flack, Audrey  
..................  (American painter, draftsman, and sculptor, born 1931) [500025614]
teacher of ....  Fletcher, Alan  
..................  (English graphic designer, typographer, and author, 1931-2006) [500125487]
teacher of ....  Flocon, Albert  
..................  (French printmaker, 1909-1946) [500030675]
teacher of ....  Goulet, Lorrie  
..................  (American sculptor, born 1925) [500109586]
teacher of ....  Hesse, Eva  
..................  (American conceptual artist and art historian, contemporary) [500357029]
teacher of ....  Hicks, Sheila  
..................  (American textile artist, born 1934, active in France) [500110474]
teacher of ....  Ives, Norman  
..................  (American painter, collagist, and printmaker, 1923-1978) [500034477]
teacher of ....  Johnson, Ray  
..................  (American painter, draftsman, and performance artist, 1927-1995) [500006906]
teacher of ....  Kranz, Kurt  
..................  (German painter and printmaker, 1910-1997) [500073410]
teacher of ....  Markman, Ronald  
..................  (American painter and sculptor, 1931-2017) [500404136]
teacher of ....  Moscoso, Victor  
..................  (American graphic artist, born 1936) [500129202]
teacher of ....  Noland, Kenneth  
..................  (American painter, 1924-2010) [500003418]
teacher of ....  Petlin, Irving  
..................  (American painter, 1934-2018) [500020129]
teacher of ....  Rauschenberg, Robert  1948-1949
..................  (American painter, sculptor, and photographer, 1925-2008) [500002941]
teacher of ....  Rose, Hajo  
..................  (German photographer, 1910-1989) [500099403]
teacher of ....  Seidler, Harry  
..................  (Australian architect, 1923-2006) [500011564]
teacher of ....  Stanczak, Julian  
..................  (American painter, 1928-2017, born in Poland) [500008750]
teacher of ....  Stein, Ethel  
..................  (American textile artist, 1917-2018) [500450262]
teacher of ....  Welliver, Neil G.  
..................  (American painter, 1929-2005) [500015713]
worked with ....  Alviani, Getulio  
....................  (Italian painter and sculptor, 1939-2018) [500006302]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Albers, Josef (I)

Biographies:
(German-American painter and theorist, 1888-1976) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(German painter, 1888-1976) ..... [RKD]
(artist) ..... [Belvedere]
(painter, probably Austrian, 1888-1974) ..... [Belvedere]
(Unknown artist) ..... [GRISC]
(German painter, 1888-1976) ..... [IMJ]
(American artist, born Germany. 1888-1976) ..... [MoMA]
(American artist, 1888-1976) ..... [PROV]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American painter, printmaker, 1888-1976) ..... [BHA]
(German artist, 1888-1976) ..... [AVERY]
(German artist, 1888-1976) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(American artist, 1888-1976) ..... [WCI]
(American artist, 1888-) ..... [WCP]
(American painter, 1888-1976) ..... [PROV]
(American (b. Germany), 1888-1976) ..... [JPGM]
(German and American artist, painter, printmaker, sculptor, teacher, professor, art theorist, typographer, designer, author and photographer; born Bottrop (Germany), 1888; died New Haven (Connecticut, United States), 1976) ..... [CCA]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
אלברס, יוזף ........ [IMJ]
......................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
Albers ........ [PROV]
...............  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Albers, Josef ........ [AVERY Preferred, Belvedere Preferred, BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, IMJ Preferred, JPGM Preferred, MoMA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 36
............................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................  Avery Authority files (1963-)
............................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
............................  Friedl, Typography (1998) 86
............................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
............................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 80057250
............................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
............................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 895
............................  Witt Library, Authority files
Albers, Joseph ........ [PROV]
..............................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
..............................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Josef Albers ........ [Belvedere, CCA, GRISC, GRL, MoMA, PROV, VP]
..........................  Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
..........................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [AVERY, Belvedere, BHA, CCA, Gallery Systems, GRISC, GRL, IMJ, JPGM, MoMA, PROV, RKD, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 36
....................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976)
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  CCA Authority File (1980-)
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Friedl, Typography (1998) 86
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n80057250
....................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1999)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) 1:548-549
....................  Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
....................  Israel Museum Jerusalem database
....................  LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n80057250
....................  M. Knoedler & Co. records, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2012-)
....................  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 895
....................  Vollmer, Künstler-Lexikon 20. Jahrhunderts (1953-62)
....................  Weber, Josef Albers (1988)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q170071
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [AVERY, CCA, PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Dictionary of Art (1996) 548-549
.......... LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.]
.......... Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects (1982)
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
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