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
against falling hundred knees onto result spoken teaching thousands
You see, I have in my teaching - I always say I've done it for a hundred years and have had thousands of students - I have always spoken against just falling onto your knees for so-called accidents, I mean a result you are not responsible for.
again came horizontal intensity leading straight stuff submit suddenly vertical
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I submit to changes in the intensity of my hand leading a tool, you see.
ate collected money received saved
On the little money I had collected I lived in Berlin very cheaply, ate very cheaply. And already in 1920 I saved the first salaries I received to go to Munich.
almost fact medium physically relative seen visual
In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.
artistic means perceive prove relative studies
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression, that we never really perceive what color is physically.
academy good interest stuck studied
I went to the Academy and studied with Stuck who was then a big man. But didn't interest me. I didn't know that before me there was Kandinsky and Klee who had also studied with Stuck. He had a good name at that time.
carries colors ground hue repeated therefore
Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
color deceiving
Color deceives continuously.
artist individualism scientist
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
doe said has-beens
What has been said does not simply belong to us.
A thing is never seen as it really is.
paint painter
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.
color want function
I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
thinking kandinsky
I think Kandinsky and I were very near friends.