A Beautiful Confluence: Anni and Josef Albers and the Latin American World
Texts by Nicholas Fox Weber, Sara Franco, Petró Kohut, Nicholas Marang, Carolina Orsini, Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, and Jordi Soler. Chronology by Jessica Csoma
A Beautiful Confluence presents the art of the twentieth-century masters, Anni and Josef Albers, in tandem with the pre-Columbian objects they collected from the time they moved to America in 1933 until Josef\s death in 1976. In fourteen trips to Mexico and other countries in Central and South America, they discovered that \"Art is everywhere.\" With little money, the couple amassed an important collection, and the exchange between what they bought and their own work became powerful. This beautifully illustrated exhibition catalogue features essays from a range of perspectives and reveals the similar visual and artistic interests of Anni and Josef and the Latin American world that became their haven.
Publisher: The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Artists: Josef Albers, Anni Albers
Contributors: , Sara Franco, Petró Kohut, Nicholas Marang, Carolina Orsini, Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, Jordi Soler, Jessica Csoma
Designer: Peter Maybury
Printer: MM Artbook Printing & Repro
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 11 in (24.1 x 27.9 cm)
Pages: 152
Reproductions: 89 color, 25 b&w
ISBN: 0000000000078
Retail: $30 | £25
Status: Available
Josef Albers
Josef Albers (1888–1976) is considered one of the foremost abstract painters, as well as an important designer and educator noted for his rigorously experimental approach to spatial relationships and color theory. Born in Bottrop, Germany, Albers studied at the Weimar Bauhaus, later joining the school’s faculty in 1922. In 1933, he and Anni Albers emigrated to North Carolina, where they founded the art department at Black Mountain College. During this time, Albers began to show his work extensively within the United States. In 1950, the Alberses moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where Josef was invited to direct the newly formed Department of Design at Yale University School of Art. Albers retired from teaching in 1958, just prior to the publication of his important Interaction of Color (1963), which was reissued in two volumes in 2013. Albers became the first living artist to be the subject of a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1971.
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Anni Albers
Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a textile artist, designer, printmaker, and educator known for her pioneering graphic wall hangings, weavings, and designs. She was born in Berlin, and studied painting under German Impressionist Martin Brandenburg from 1916 to 1919. After attending the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg for two months in 1920, she enrolled at the Bauhaus in 1922 and joined the faculty in 1929. At Black Mountain College from 1933 to 1949 she elaborated on the technical innovations she devised at the Bauhaus, developing a specialized curriculum that integrated weaving and industrial design. In 1949 she became the first designer to have a one-person show at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the exhibition Anni Albers: Textiles subsequently traveled to 26 venues throughout the United States and Canada. Her seminal book On Weaving, published in 1965, helped to establish design studies as an area of academic and aesthetic inquiry and solidified her status as the single most influential textile artist of the twentieth century.
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