The Josef Albers in Mexico exhibition is a necessary corrective to Albers’s reputation as more pedagogue than painter and the misconception that abstraction can ever be free of outside influence.
The director of the Josef Albers Foundation deemed the painting a fake in 2016. A similar work from Josef Albers's series, Homage to the Square (1971) © 2017 The ...
It wasn’t his art history degree from Columbia University that would lead Nicholas Fox Weber, now the Executive Director of the Albers Foundation, into the art world. It was romance. Or, more ...
VESTIGE, the contemporary men’s brand, has partnered with The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation for a dream collaboration on the German-born American artist’s most emblematic designs. The brand’s ...
Art lovers expect much from artists deemed 20th-century masters. Seeing well-known work through fresh eyes is no easy feat, and the filter of narrative, biography, and intellectual history is not ...
Nicholas Fox Weber, the executive director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation since 1979, has been named a chevalier in the France’s Order of Arts and Letters. Mr. Weber will officially receive ...
Josef Albers, “Color Study of Grays” (not dated). Oil on cardstock with varnish, 17.9 x 25.7 cm. © 2012 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights ...
Josef Albers began using glass as a primary medium, fusing together pieces he salvaged from the Weimar, Germany, garbage dump, when he started studying at Bauhaus in 1920 at the age of 32. His ...
I was introduced to the teachings of Josef Albers in a color theory course my senior year of art school at Boston University. My professor Richard Raiselis had studied under Albers during his time at ...
“If one in a group says ‘red,’” Josef Albers once said, “we can be sure that there are as many different conceptions of red as there are individuals in that group.” As prolific artists, designers and ...