*Born in Bottrop, Westphalia Germany
*German artist, mathematician, and educator
*Abstract paintings and study of color
*Studied art in Berlin, Essen, and Munich before studying at the Weimar Bauhaus before becoming a professor there
*Bauhaus was a German school that combined crafts and fine arts and would become a very influential school for modern architecture and modern design
*Began teaching preliminary courses in The Department of Design in 1922 before being promoted to professor in 1925, the same year the Bauhaus moved to Dessau
*When the Bauhaus was closed in 1933 by the Nazi's, Albers emigrated to North Carolina,USA to run the painting program at Black Mountain College, until 1949
*Some of his students at Black Mountain would include Robert Rauschenberg(abstractexpressionist,pop artist), Cy Twombly(abstract expressionist,calligraphic graffiti), and Ray Johnson(early pop artist,mail art)
*Left Black Mountain College for Yale in Connecticut where he taught until retirement in 1958
*Notable students at Yale were Richard Anuskiewicz(op artist) and Eva Hesse(post minimailist sculpture)
*His greatest masterpiece would be the publication of his book The Interaction of Color in 1963
*Began is famous series, Homage to a Square in 1949
*Known for exploring shifting color relationships between hues, values,color temperature, and saturation
*His goal was to change color harmonies, the formation of a group of colors that visually unify in some manner
*He married textile artist and fellow Bauhaus student, Anni Fleischmann in 1925 and lived with her in New Haven, Connecticut until his death in 1976
Abert and Anni(c.1949)
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