While he was teaching, Albers continued to develop his artistic practice. He served as the head of the painting department between 1939-1949, and he taught the likes of Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg. On the recommendation of architect Philip Johnson, both Albers and Anni were offered positions at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. After the Nazi government closed the Bauhaus in 1933, Albers and his wife immigrated to the United States. Some of his notable works from the time include sandblasted flashed glass artworks like Impossibles (1931) and Rolled Wrongly (1931). During this period, Albers explored many different media like furniture design, glasswork, metalwork, typography, and photography.

Around this time, he also married Anni Fleischmann, who was a student at the school.

In 1922 Albers became a faculty member at the Bauhaus and was promoted to professor in 1925. The Bauhaus, which advocated for the synthesis of fine art and craftsmanship, soon became one of the most influential design schools in Germany. He also was an educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century.īorn on March 19, 1888, in Bottrop, Germany, Albers enrolled as a student at the newly opened Bauhaus school in Weimar in 1920. Josef Albers was a painter, poet, sculptor, and theoretician, best known for his iconic series of abstract paintings, the Homage to the Square series.

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