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
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.
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 names people
If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.
rubies pebbles depth
Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.
one-line lines plus
One line plus one line results in many meanings.
effort different honest
When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.
father glasses house
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
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.
teacher safe my-family
It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.
yellow years periods
I was for years in the yellow period, you know.
style thermometers
I have invented the Thermometer style.
resonance
I count all the time on resonance. I call on this, you see.
color want function
I want color and form to have contradictorily functions.
paint painter
A painter paints because he has no time not to paint.