Josef Albers
Hommage to the Square / Olympia
About this artwork
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artist:Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) German
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title:Hommage to the Square / Olympia
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date created:1970
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materials:Screenprint on paper
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credit line:The Henry and Sula Walton collection: bequeathed 2012
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accession number:GMA 5206
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Josef Albers
Josef Albers
Albers was born in Germany and taught at the Bauhaus art school, alongside Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky and others. He emigrated to the USA in 1933, after the Nazis closed the Bauhaus. In America Albers taught at the influential Black Mountain College until 1949 and later became...
