Description: (Artist and Educator Best Known for His Work as an Abstract Painter and a Theorist)
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator known for his influential work in the 20th century. He played a significant role at the Weimar Bauhaus, joining in 1920 and eventually becoming a professor in Dessau. After emigrating to the US in 1933, he taught at Black Mountain College and later led the design department at Yale University. Albers' innovative teaching methods and book "Interaction of Color" had a profound impact on postwar Western visual art. His abstract paintings, notably the series "Homage to the Square," are widely recognized and celebrated.