ALBERS, Josef
(1888–1976)
ALBERS, Josef (19 March 1888–26 March 1976). A student and then an instructor at the Bauhaus, Albers emigrated to America soon after that legendary German school was closed by the Nazi authorities, teaching first in North Carolina at Black Mountain College until 1949, and then at Yale University until his retirement. Intentionally restricting his imagery to rectangles within rectangles, which he considered scrupulously neutral shapes, Albers created paintings and drawings based primarily upon…