Albers, Josef

LC control no.	n 80057250
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Albers, Josef *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Albers, Yozef אלברס, יוזף
Associated country	Germany United States
Located	New Haven (Conn.)
Birth date	1888-03-19
Death date	1976-03-25
Place of birth	Bottrop (Germany)
Field of activity	Art
Affiliation	Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) Yale University
Profession or occupation	Artists Art teachers University and college faculty members
Special note	Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found in	Zeichnungen, 1956. Josef Albers, c1992: p. 127-128 (b. Mar. 19, 1888, Bottrop; d. Mar. 25, 1976) Albers Foundation website, viewed Sept. 20, 2013 (Josef Albers; German-born American artist, educator, and author; on faculty at the Bauhaus, 1925-33; emigrated to the USA, 1933; faculty at Black Mountain College, near Asheville, North Carolina, 1933-49; chairman of the Department of Design at the Yale University School of Art, 1950-58) Obyeḳṭiv, 2014: title page (יוזף אלברס = Yozef Albers) added title page (Josef Albers [in rom.]) Union list of artist names, via WWW, March 26, 2019 (Albers, Josef (German-American painter and theorist, 1888-1976). Born 19 March 1888; died 25 March 1976. Albers trained as an art teacher at Königliche Kunstschule in Berlin, Germany, from 1913 to 1915. From 1916 to 1919 he began his work as a printmaker at the 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. He was highly regarded as a teacher and is considered influential for the generation of artists emerging in the 1950s and 1960s)