It was 1933 Berlin, Hitler had just come to power, and the artist Josef Albers had a big problem: The Bauhaus, an internationally famous school of art and design where Albers had taught for more ...

Although they capture quotidian subjects — portraits of Albers’s family and friends; pictures of mannequins, stairwells, the beach, the Eiffel Tower — the carefully constructed collages meld ...

Following their precipitous meeting at the famed Bauhaus school in 1922, artists Josef and Anni Albers, arguably the most enduring couple to emerge from the Bauhaus movement, would chart the rest ...

Almost 50 years after his death, this modern artist wows TikTok with bold and unexpected colors. Looking for fresh color inspiration? TikTokers and beyond are turning to iconic artist and Bauhaus ...

In 1923, decades before he began his pioneering work in color theory, Josef Albers became ... shows him talking and looking away. Albers’s work isn’t a portrait per se but, rather, a ...

In our perception they alter one another,” said pioneering artist Josef Albers around 1950 ... These include Ellsworth Kelly’s 1990 “EK/Spectrum” with a male portrait repeated on a band of rectangles ...

These days, Albers is often heralded more for his educational ... The gridlike photocollages concatenate three, six, or a dozen portraits of friends and fellow-Bauhauslers: a squinty, cigar ...

And when, in 1958, at age 70, the German émigré Josef Albers retired from the Yale faculty, legacy-defining professional triumphs were still to come. Prominent among these was his book “Interaction of ...