![]() ![]() Around the time that he joined the Yale faculty in 1950, Albers began his celebrated Homage to the Square series. ![]() He also published the influential treatise Interaction of Color (1963), a study of color theory that was used widely in art instruction. In this way, Albers disseminated his Bauhaus education and his own artistic philosophy to a new generation of artists in America. He emigrated to the United States with his wife Anni and taught first at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. After completing his course of study, Albers was appointed as a teacher at the Bauhaus in 1925, and he remained there until the school closed in 1933 under pressure from the Nazi party. The basis of its education was the "preliminary course," a curriculum designed to prepare the students for further study in the school's various workshops the course's central concept was the "contrasting effects" of form, texture, and-most importantly for Albers-color. With its strong utilitarian emphasis, the Bauhaus placed equal importance on technical and artistic skills. In 1920, the young artist Josef Albers enrolled at the Bauhaus, the recently founded school of art, architecture, and design in Weimar, Germany. ![]()
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