Josef Albers Discovery and Invention: The Early Graphic Works

This hard-back publication considers Josef Albers’s early development as an artist, beginning with the pre-Bauhaus years when he worked as an elementary-school teacher in his native Bottrop in western Germany.

Focusing on his prints and other works on paper, the book reveals not only the unappreciated naturalistic origins of his art, but also his ongoing interest in producing organic, surrealistic forms alongside the geometric abstraction for which he is best known.

It presents dozens of prints, paintings, and drawings from the first half of his career, as well as previously unseen photographs of the artist at work and on research trips to the ancient sites of Mexico where he found important sources of inspiration for his art and theories.

Featuring a foreword by David Cleaton-Roberts, co-director of Cristea Roberts Gallery and essays by Brenda Danilowitz, art historian and Chief Curator at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Jeannette Redensek, art historian and Research Curator and Josef Albers Catalogue Raisonné Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

Publisher: Art/Books 
Published 2021

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