Painting on paper
Subtitle: Josef Albers in America
By: edited by Heinz Liesbrock and Michael Semff ; with texts by Isabelle Dervaux, Heinz Liesbrock, and Michael Semff
Contributors: Albers, Josef
Publisher: Hatje/Cantz; Hatje Cantz
Published: 2011
Place of publication: München
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9783775725873
Subjects: Exhibitions
Other titles: Josef Albers in America
Description: Summary: This publication presents a wealth of in part unknown colored works on paper by Josef Albers (1888-1976), documented for the first time. It was not until the German-born artist emigrated to the U.S. that he emerged as a prominent artist and influential teacher. Beginning in about 1940, Albers allowed himself to be inspired by Mexico's pre-Columbian architecture, sculpture and textile art, which led to a liberation of his aesthetic sensibilities and to unconventional, radiant pitches of color, the likes of which modern painting in Europe had never seen before. In ca. 1950, he discovered the square, in his eyes the ideal form for color. He was both a resolute painter as well as a color philosopher. Each of the works on paper presented here arouses a sensuous fascination for the phenomenality of color.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Dec. 16, 2010-Mar. 6, 2011 and at 6 other locations through Oct. 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.