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Josef Albers Biography

Josef Albers, Artist
Occup.Artist
FromGermany
BornMarch 19, 1888
Bottrop, Germany
DiedMarch 26, 1976
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Aged88 years
Josef Albers was a prominent American artist of German beginning that is best understood for his contribution to the field of abstract art. Born upon March 19, 1888, in Bottrop, Germany, Albers invested his early years researching art as well as design at different organizations in Germany. He researched at the Royal Academy of Arts in Berlin from 1913 to 1915, as well as later at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1920 to 1923.

In 1923, Albers was designated to the professors of the Bauhaus, where he showed numerous training courses in style and color theory. His ingenious approach to teaching as well as his rate of interest in checking out the homes of color rapidly made him a valued figure amongst his coworkers as well as trainees. Throughout his time at the Bauhaus, he also functioned as an artist and also generated a number of jobs that explored the partnership in between color, kind, as well as room.

In 1933, Albers was compelled to leave Germany as a result of the Nazi regimen's anti-Semitic plans. He and also his other half, Anni Albers, immigrated to the United States, where he accepted a placement at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. At this progressive liberal arts school, Albers continued his speculative operate in shade concept and design.

In 1949, Albers joined the professors of Yale University, where he educated till his retired life in 1958. During his time at Yale, he continued to deal with his series of Homage to the Square paints, which came to be a few of his most well-known and also significant works. These abstract paintings checked out the relationship in between shade and understanding and also the varying effects of color on the human eye.

Albers' contribution to the globe of art as well as layout has been extensively identified as well as commemorated. He was awarded the Gold Medal for Fine Arts by the National Institute of Arts as well as Letters in 1968, as well as his work has been displayed in major galleries and also galleries throughout the globe. Also today, years after his fatality in 1976, Albers' suggestions regarding shade theory as well as layout remain to motivate as well as educate artists as well as designers from all self-controls.

Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by Josef.

Related authors: Robert Rauschenberg (Artist), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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31 Famous quotes by Josef Albers

Small: I prefer to see with closed eyes
"I prefer to see with closed eyes"
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Small: Im not a talker. Im a formulator
"I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator"
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Small: On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 19
"On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich"
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Small: As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises
"As basic rules of a language must be practiced continually, and therefore are never fixed, so exercises toward distinct color effects never are done or over. New and different cases will be discovered time and again"
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Small: Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences
"Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences"
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Small: It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible
"It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible"
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Small: Ive handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as on
"I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one"
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Small: I love very much to draw animals
"I love very much to draw animals"
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Small: I have invented the Thermometer style
"I have invented the Thermometer style"
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Small: You see, I have in my teaching - I always say Ive done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of
"You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for"
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Small: Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are look
"Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward"
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Small: In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god
"In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god"
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Small: And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped
"And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything"
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Small: The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that w
"The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically"
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Small: My fathers parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of
"My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know"
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Small: Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how
"Instead of art I have taught philosophy. Though technique for me is a big word, I never have taught how to paint. All my doing was to make people to see"
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Small: If you dont do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide
"If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide"
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Small: I was for years in the yellow period, you know
"I was for years in the yellow period, you know"
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Small: I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing
"I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing"
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Small: I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it wa
"I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training"
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Small: Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an appre
"Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets"
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Small: When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lin
"When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see"
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Small: Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting
"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting"
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Small: In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact make
"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art"
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Small: I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends
"I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends"
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Small: I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see
"I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see"
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Small: Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutel
"Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely"
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Small: Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature
"Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature"
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Small: When we are honest - thats my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not ha
"When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others"
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Small: It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is conce
"It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see"
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Small: I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didnt interest me. I didnt kno
"I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time"
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