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Encyclopedia entry: Albers, Joseph
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- Who's Who in the Twentieth Century
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Albers, Joseph (1888–1976)
German-born US painter, designer, and influential teacher of art. Before 1920 Albers divided his time between teaching and art studies. He then entered the newly created Bauhaus school, which aimed at the union of all the arts with modern architecture and with industry. When Albers began to teach there three years later, it had become the most important school of design in Germany. At the Bauhaus, Albers rejected the emotional self-expression and representational style of his early work in favour of constructivist art built up by intellectual calculation and the use of simple geometric forms. The glass pictures and windows that he created represented ...