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Exhibitions

Josef Albers: roaring diagonals and paradisiacal squares

Andrew Lambirth is smitten by the vibrant geometries of the influential German-American painter

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

24 May 2014

9:00 AM

Josef Albers: Black and White

Waddington Custot Galleries, 11 Cork Street, W1, until 4 June

Josef Albers (1888–1976) is best known for his long engagement with the square, which he painted in exquisite variation more than a thousand times. A German–American painter, he trained in Berlin and Munich before enrolling at the Bauhaus (the leading modernist art and design school) in 1920. He was a student there for three years and a teacher for ten (longer than anyone else), his chosen craft was stained glass, and his teaching ranged from typography to furniture.

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