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Variant IX
196720th Century
8 3/4 in. x 13 3/16 in.
Josef Albers, American, (1888–1976)
Object Type:
Work on Paper
Medium and Support:
screenprint on paper
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph F. Besier
Accession Number:
2011.17
In Variant IX, German artist Josef Albers travels great lengths down the Modernist road of abstraction. The subject here is pure geometry and his concern is mainly with the overall interaction and balance of colors in the composition. Albers played a key role in disseminating European Modernist styles in the United States. He studied, and later taught, at the Bauhaus, the renowned German art and design school, from 1920 through its closure, under pressure from the Nazis for its radical artistic practices, in 1933. He immediately moved to Black Mountain College, in Asheville, North Carolina, where he headed the art faculty and continued his studies of color theory. He finished his teaching career by completely overhauling the art department of Yale University in the 1950s, severing it from its nineteenth-century academic roots and installing a Modernism-friendly curriculum.
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