Study for Homage to the Square: Early Years
1964
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View on museum website →Medium
oil on hardboard
Dimensions
overall: 44.45 × 44.45 cm (17 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.) framed: 46.83 × 46.83 × 3.18 cm (18 7/16 × 18 7/16 × 1 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Olga Hirshhorn)
Accession Number
2015.19.230
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...