Josef and Anni Albers

Name: Josef and Anni Albers
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9788898756735

by Unknown Author

142 pages2018AtlanteISBN 9788898756735

Art

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Josef Albers always worked rationally with geometrical shapes and meticulously made tiny alterations in order to produce new sensations. Anni, from the early years in the textile workshop understands and explores the infinite chromatic and expressive possibility offered by tissue. She begins her experimentation testing new materials and transforming tissue in abstract art. Throw straight line, solid color, wires, traditional yarns she arrives to organic, geometric, circular and helicoidal shapes that will become recurrent elements of her art. Both abandoned figurative representation, choosing abstraction to express their own private reality that was in turn influenced by music and nature. This new experiential way of discovering the styles of the artists can therefore enrich the experience of all the visitors but above all help those who are visually impaired and often cannot enjoy art. The Alberses used to live art as experience: a sensation that hit all the senses stimulating their perception. According to this interpretation, sight is not only a not necessary element but even a barrier. The project is thought to make enjoyable this new interpretation of the art throw the senses for all the visitors that will visit the exhibition with a special focus on the experience of the visually impaired public.

Publication Details

Publisher: Atlante
Published: 2018
Pages: 142
ISBN: 9788898756735

About Unknown Author

German artist and designer; prof. at the Bauhaus. Albers trained as an art teacher at Königliche Kunstgewerbschule in nearby Essen, Germany. In 1919 he went to Munich, Germany, to study at the Königliche Bayerische Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, where he was a pupil of Max Doerner and Frank Stuck. In 1920 he attended the preliminary course (Vorkurs) at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, and was appointed a master in 1923 or 1925. In 1925 Albers moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau, Germany, where he was named master. From 1928 to 1930 he was also in charge of the furniture workshop. In 1932 he moved with the Bauhaus to Berlin. From 1933, after the closure of the Bauhaus in Berlin, until 1949, Albers taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. From 1948 to 1950 or from 1950 to 1958, Albers was professor and chairman of the Department of Design at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He remained there as a visiting professor until 1960. After his retirement from Yale University, Albers continued to live in New Haven and to paint, monitor his own exhibitions and publications, write, lecture and work on large commissioned sculptures for architectural settings. *(Source: Union List of Artist Names - Getty Research Institute)*