Albers
Homage to the Square
1971
ARTIST:
Albers, Josef b. 1888 Bottrop, Germany d. 1978 New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Technique:
Screen print
Paper:
wove, 22,5 x 24,0 cm sheet
Condition:
Excellent
Realisation / Publication:
Printed for a special exhibition on the work of Josef Albers - Museum of Art and Cultural History, Munster, Rothenburg, 30, Verlag Aurel Bongers, Recklinghausen, West-Germany 1971
Reference / Literature:
see the Catalogue, Munster, 1971, Text by Jurgen Wissman
Provenance:
Private collector, USA
Asking:
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The Homage to the Square series, with its many incarnations, became one of the defining points of theoretical discussion in the art historical cannon that was modernism in the 20th dominated Albers’ career from the late 1950’s until his death. Within the harmonious hues of the square within a square, Albers was able to investigate the power of colour as a language unique to an abstraction devoid of representation. Albers’ extended the principles of abstraction and by extension, the relationship this had to the making of art and the necessary function of colour to enhance space and proportion during the creative process. In this present work, similar in scale to the many screen prints that were published in the 1970s in both Germany and the United States, Albers suggests the universality of the square and the language it conveys in the everyday, with changing arrangements of colour, line and tone have become a manifestation of Albers’ oervre, building on his artistic vocabulary that Albers founded and left behind.
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