Homage to the Square: Soft Edge—Hard Edge
1965
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portfolio of ten screenprints with colophon
Dimensions
overall: 46.99 × 45.4 × 3.18 cm (18 1/2 × 17 7/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Charles Parkhurst in memory of William C. Seitz
Accession Number
1981.81.1.1-10
About the Artist
Josef Albers
Josef Albers, born on March 19, 1888, in Bottrop, Westphalia, into a Roman Catholic family of craftsmen, received early practical training from his father, Lorenzo Albers, a housepainter and carpenter, mastering skills in engraving glass, plumbing, wiring, and printmaking. After working as a schoolteacher in Bottrop from 1908 to 1913, he trained as an art teacher at the Königliche Kunstschule in B...