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Josef Albers

Study for Homage to the Square, Concentric, 1960

Description

Maker

  • Josef Albers, 1886-1976, American (b. Germany)

Title

Study for Homage to the Square, Concentric

Year

1960

Medium

Oil on masonite

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • acrylic paint

Supports

  • masonite | board

Dimensions

40 x 40 cm (15 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed reverse:Study for / Homage to the Square / Concentric.

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Gift of Josef Albers

Object Number

69.213

About

Josef Albers linked the European avant-garde with the American. A student of the Bauhaus in Germany (1920 - 1925), he also taught there (1925 - 1933). When the Bauhaus was closed in 1933, he came to the U.S. and began teaching at Black Mountain College and later at Yale University. He influenced a generation of American artists, who went on to develop Color-Field painting, Minimalism, and Op art. The Museum’s paintings are from his series of experiments with the perceptual effects of color juxta-positions and sequences. The orange squares of Excentric radiate and expand against the blue outer square, while the cooler colors of Concentric draw the eye inward toward the grey center, which seems to recede.

Inscribed reverse:Study for / Homage to the Square / Concentric.

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Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 4

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Jim Isermann

November 17, 2000 - March 4, 2001

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