Bio

Albers was a pioneering artist, educator, and color theorist who studied in Germany before enrolling at the Bauhaus, where he became a master in 1925 and explored abstract geometric compositions using primary colors. Fleeing Nazi Germany in 1933, he moved to the U.S. and taught at Black Mountain College and later chaired Yale’s art department, mentoring artists like Eva Hesse and Robert Rauschenberg. His iconic Homage to the Square series systematically investigated how color and form affect perception, culminating in global acclaim and the first solo exhibition for a living artist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1971.