Josef Albers
Josef Albers
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the twentieth century...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth19 March 1888
CountryGermany
talkers
I'm not a talker. I'm a formulator.
jobs teaching government
When we were in the seminary we got a stipend direct from the government and for that stipend we had an obligation to stick to our teaching job for five years.
animal draws
I love very much to draw animals.
color perceive
We never really perceive what color is physically!
art art-is objects
Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.
resonance
I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
suicide way commit
If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.
independent color harmony
Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.
teacher art school
I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.
father parent theatre
My father's parents were carpenters. They were also builders partly. They were painters. And several of them were very, active in the theatre and all such nonsense, you know.
yellow years periods
I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
art tradition historian
Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.
way taught students
I have taught my students not to apply rules or mechanical ways of seeing.
art art-is concerned
Art is concerned with the HOW and not the WHAT.