Talk:Josef Albers

Joseph Albers was born in a family of artisans in 1888. He was born into a family of artisans. His family were very meticulous crafters and took pride in there complicated crafting. As a young man he was inspired by the art works of Cezanne, Matisse, and Cubism. He went to art school at Königliche Kunstschule in Berlin from 1913-1915. He was married to weaver Anni Fleischmann in 1915.

From 1915-1920 he was a art student in Berlin and was known for his creative glass sculptors in which he got the glass from the city dump. In 1923 he started to teach people how to design furniture. He did this for about ten years and then in 1933 he and his family were forced to move to America because of the Nazi pressure on his teaching. In America Albers became a “prolific artist”, known for his paintings "Homage’s to Squares." This series of painting were all perfect squares. The squares were over-lapping and were multi-colored. He chose squares for their man-made quality because squares are never made in nature. If they are colored they also made an optical illusion that “confuses” the watcher. From 1950-1958 he was the Chairmen of the Department of Design at Yale university. Joseph Albers died in 1976 at age 88, very old for the time.

This text was stuck at the bottom of the article. Anybody want to merge it into the rest? Dreamyshade 07:05, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

150.131.72.51 added the word "fart" (gasp) :-) - I removed to clear up any confusion that Josef's first name was such after the Bauhaus was shut down.

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Influence

The lede says he "formed the basis of modern art education programs of the twentieth century." but the article just lists his employement. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 06:08, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Good point. I have marked that claim as needing a citation. If in future you should find similar cases, please feel free to do so yourself.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 07:28, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Sure, I do that often. The lede does not actually need sources, as it summarizes the body, so we should perhaps just remove it for now. I do not doubt the claim, but it needs to be fleshed out in the body.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 18:46, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Well, the lede should not need sources, so long as it only summarizes the body of the article, but there are exceptions, as noted in MOS:LEADCITE. I think that, since neither of us actually doubts the claim, it might be left in place for a while yet, in the hopes that someone with better knowledge of the relevant literature than I, at least, possess, may come along and provide the desired source.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 23:38, 22 January 2020 (UTC)

Homage to the Square

When the lead mentions the Homage to the Square series, it currently links to this stub on Homage to the Square: Ascending (the only work in the series that currently has its own Wikipedia article). But when other articles on Wikipedia mention the Homage to the Square, they currently link to the general article on Albers (Homage to the Square currently redirects to Albers). This is all very confusing. Given the importance of the Homage to the Square series and the extensive scholarship on it, I think it merits its own article. But I don't think individual works in the series should be treated with their own article. I would propose a few things:

1. Integrate Homage to the Square: Ascending into an article on the series more generally.
2. Stop redirecting Homage to the Square to Joseph Albers
3. Make sure that any mention of Homage to the Square links to the article on the series as a whole

How does that sound? If there are no objections, I am happy to do it.

Owunsch (talk) 19:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)