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Besides his geometric abstractions which stress color, form, and shading, Josef Albers has done bright and glossy studies in sandblasted glass. To make his patterns, Albers put together sheets of laminated glass of different colors and blasted his designs from the top plates, allowing the underplates to show through. Albers...

Author: By Michael Maccoby, | Title: On Exhibit | 1/15/1952 | See Source »

The Artists' Gallery was celebrating its 15th anniversary with a show of 96 happy alumni. Almost half of them, e.g., Josef Albers, Ad Reinhardt, Adolph Gottlieb, have graduated to commercial galleries which charge commissions and push the same painters year after year. The Artists' Gallery does neither. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stix Pix | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

By driving such fine artists as Grosz, Josef Albers, Paul Klee and Max Beckmann from the country, by persecuting the few moderns who remained, and by turning their students into soldiers, Hitler had crushed Germany's art tradition. Still cut off from the art of other nations, her new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Modern in the Dark | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

Born 60 years ago in Westphalia, Albers was nicknamed "Dante" in his youth because he had a profile like the poet's. He began as an architect, turned to stained-glass windows which he made out of broken bottles salvaged from a junkyard. He spent ten years teaching at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nothing Definite | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

"In the end," Albers admits, "I am concerned with emotion in spite of everything. Some of my things are sorrowful, some are jokes." His favorite stunt is no joke to Albers. At first glance his paintings look rigid and definite to the point of dullness, but there is nothing definite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nothing Definite | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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