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Josef Albers
1888 – 1976
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryJosef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States. Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman Catholic family with a background in craftsmanship, Albers received practical training in diverse skills like engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring during his childhood. He later worked as a schoolteacher from 1908 to 1913 and received his first public commission in 1918 and moved to Munich in 1919.
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
March 19, 1888
Bottrop
Date of death
March 25, 1976
New Haven
Citizenship
Germany · United States
Occupations & fields
painteruniversity teacherphotographerdesignerprintmakersculptor
Awards & honours
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of GermanyFellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAIGA Medal
- Field and occupation
- americký malíř německého původu, představitel abstraktního malířství a op-artu
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