2004-03-12

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Joseph Albers

Kinetic (I), 1945 oil on masonite, 22 x 30.25 in.Gift of the Olsen Foundation, 1968.
Joseph Albers (1888-1976) was a major theorist on the visual effects of color relations. A teacher at the Bauhaus, the German art school that pioneered principles of modern design, Albers came to the United States in 1933 and taught at Yale from 1950 to 1959.