Josef Albers is best known for a group of works that occupied him for the last 25 years of his life that he called Homage to the Square. He created over 1000 of them starting in 1950 when he was 62 years old. In the course of his long career, Albers worked on stained and collaged glass works, furniture design, typography, printmaking, photography and painting.

Albers trained in stained glass, drawing and painting in Essen and Munich, before enrolling at the Bauhaus in 1920. After his studies, he joined their faculty, where he taught the preliminary design course and a range of design studies from typography to furniture making. After it closed, he moved to the United States to teach at the Black Mountain College. In the 1950s, he began the Homage to the Square series and was appointed chairman of Department of Design at Yale University. He published the Interaction of Color in 1963, where he set out the importance of context in colour relationships.

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Title: Homage to the Square

Date: 1964

Medium: serigraph

Edition: 89 / 125

Accession no: 974.24

Gift of Walter Carsen