Josef Albers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: P-Black
1971
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color screenprint on Arches wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 72.39 × 53.34 cm (28 1/2 × 21 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Anonymous Gift
Accession Number
1982.92.6
Art Historical Context
Josef Albers' *P-Black*, created in 1971 as a color screenprint on Arches wove paper, captures the essence of the artist's lifelong fascination with color perception. This striking print, measuring 28½ × 21 inches, produced in connection with an exhibition of Albers' work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, highlighting his prominence in the late stages of his career. A German-born artist and Bauhaus master who later taught at Black Mountain College and Yale, Albers was a pioneer of abstract art, renowned for his "Homage to the Square" series, where nested geometric forms reveal the elusive nat...
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...