Josef Albers

Josef Albers trained as a teacher before joining the Bauhaus in 1920. He worked across glass, furniture, typography, photography and other media, became a Bauhaus master, and married the textile artist Anni Fleischmann in 1925. When the Bauhaus closed under Nazi pressure in 1933, he accepted an invitation to teach at the newly founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina.

Albers became one of the most influential art teachers of the twentieth century and linked the European Bauhaus tradition to experimental education and post-war modernism in the United States. Josef Albers also worked as Designer and Art educator. Josef Albers was born in Bottrop, Westphalia, German Empire and died in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

In Sarah Loudin Thomas’ These Blue Mountains, Encounters with Josef and Anni Albers show one possible future for displaced artists, while her attachment to Garland complicates the duty she feels towards Fritz’s mother in Berlin.