Josef Albers | Homage to the Square
Medium: Screenprint on brilliant colors on semi-gloss stock
Year: Unknown
Size: 10.5 x 10.5
Signature: Unknown

Josef Albers (March 19, 1888 – March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of modern art education programs of the twentieth century.

Accomplished as a designer, photographer, typographer, printmaker, and poet, Albers is best remembered for his work as an abstract painter and theorist. He favored a very disciplined approach to composition. Most famous of all are the hundreds of paintings and prints that make up the series, Homage to the Square. In this rigorous series, begun in 1949, Albers explored chromatic interactions with nested squares. Usually painting on Masonite, he used a palette knife with oil colors and often recorded the colors he used on the back of his works. Each painting consists of either three or four squares of solid planes of color nested within one another, in one of four different arrangements and in square formats ranging from 406×406 mm to 1.22×1.22 m

The publication and serigraphs were approved by the artist before his death

Published by Verlag Aurel Bongers KG, Recklinghausen, Germany – 1977

Serigraphs by Trautwein KG, Recklinghausen, Germany
Edition: Limited; 1,500

Tags: Josef Albers, Contemporary Art, Chromatic Art, Printmaking, Abstract Art, Modern Art

Mint - This work is new and in excellent condition.

10.5 x 10.5 in