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Josef Albers
"I am particularly interested by the psychic effect of the color."
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The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
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D’origine allemande et exilé aux Etats-Unis, enseignant au Bauhaus et initiateur de l’Art optique, Josef Albers s’éteint le 26 mars 1976 à New Haven (Etats-Unis), il avait 88 ans. Il repose dans le cimetière de cette ville du Connecticut, auprès de celle qui fut son épouse pendant 51 ans, l’artiste Anni Fleischman (Albers). En leur hommage, nous déposons avec respect une fleur de pivoine sur leur tombe.
"Mes parents m’ont encouragé pour devenir professeur. Je suis allé à Weimar avec très peu d’argent, mais cela ne m’a pas perturbé." - Josef Albers
"A l’instar de « Les hommes préfèrent les blondes », chacun a ses préférences pour tel ou telle couleur au détriment des autres. Cette règle s’applique également pour les combinaisons de couleurs." - Josef Albers
"Albers ne veut pas re-présenter, mais présenter." - Jan Baetens
"Pour Josef Albers, la couleur est intensément spirituelle." - Renaud Camus
"En science, un plus un est toujours égal à deux ; en art, ce peut être aussi égal à trois, voire plus." - Josef Albers
"Albers veut inscrire dans une forme parfaite une harmonie parfaite. Il veut, à chaque toile, le paradis de l’oeil, la beauté pure. " - Philippe Dagen
Notes of biography
Josef Albers was born in Germany in 1888 (Bottrop, Westphalia). He was a teacher from 1908 to 1913. Then he followed art studies. He went to the Beaux Arts royal Academy of Berlin, the Kunstgewerbeschule in Essen, the Beaux arts Academy of Berlin, then, from 1920 to 1923, the Bauhaus of Weirmar. In 1923 and for ten years, after he was a companion, Albers became master in the Bauhaus atelier of Weirmar. He successively taught in the glass atelier then furnishing and the drawing ones, also directing (since 1928) the first school levels. There he created a unity of abstract and geometrical stained glasses, square or rectangular panels, white, black and red, created series of drawings and engravings with variations on the line and the color.
He emigrated in the United States in 1933, after the Nazi power closed the Bauhaus (Albers took American nationality in 1939). The artist looked further into his research on the abstraction. He was interested in the psychic effects due to the interaction of two close colors and resulting from an aesthetic experiment. Albers went on teaching (Black Moutain College, Harvard, Yale, Pittsburg, etc). His work and his teaching were regarded as precursors of the Op Art and the Minimal art.
In “Hommage to the square” (“Hommage au carré”), the artist created sets of four then of three encased squares, with different formats, colors and shade. The artist also worked perspectives illusions. Early 50’s, Albers obtained public order; he created large wall panels and stained glasses.
Josef Albers died in New Haven (Connecticut, the United States) in 1976.
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*« Josef Albers, prints 1915-1970 », J. Miller, Brooklyn, 1973
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To read about the artist :
- « Albers, Josef », André Swertz, Jean Arp, Galerie Denise René, Paris, 1957
- « Josef Albers » Katherine Kuh, Ed. Harper & Row, New York, 1962
- « White Line Squares », County Mus.of Art and Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, 1966
- « Three lectures by J. Albers », Trinity College Press, Hartford, 1969
- « Josef Albers », Eugen Gomringer, Ed. Dessain et Tolra, Paris, 1972
- « Albers. Despite straight lines », François Bacher, Mit Press, 1977
- « The Life and Art of J. Albers », I. L. Finkelstein, U.M.I., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1979
- « Josef Albers », Stadt Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, 1983
- « Nouvelle lecture des carrés de J. Albers », Jan Baetens, P.O.L., Paris, 2000
- « Squares and others shapes », J. Albers, Phaidon Press, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Interview with Josef Albers », Sevim Fesci, 1968
- « L'Interaction des couleurs », Ed. Hachette, Paris, 1974, Ed. Hazan, 2013
Website :
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Stamp by Josef Albers
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
Discover all the stamps
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+ A tribute to...
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A tribute to Josef Albers
Sorry this section is only available in french for now.
D’origine allemande et exilé aux Etats-Unis, enseignant au Bauhaus et initiateur de l’Art optique, Josef Albers s’éteint le 26 mars 1976 à New Haven (Etats-Unis), il avait 88 ans. Il repose dans le cimetière de cette ville du Connecticut, auprès de celle qui fut son épouse pendant 51 ans, l’artiste Anni Fleischman (Albers). En leur hommage, nous déposons avec respect une fleur de pivoine sur leur tombe.
"Mes parents m’ont encouragé pour devenir professeur. Je suis allé à Weimar avec très peu d’argent, mais cela ne m’a pas perturbé." - Josef Albers
"A l’instar de « Les hommes préfèrent les blondes », chacun a ses préférences pour tel ou telle couleur au détriment des autres. Cette règle s’applique également pour les combinaisons de couleurs." - Josef Albers
"Albers ne veut pas re-présenter, mais présenter." - Jan Baetens
"Pour Josef Albers, la couleur est intensément spirituelle." - Renaud Camus
"En science, un plus un est toujours égal à deux ; en art, ce peut être aussi égal à trois, voire plus." - Josef Albers
"Albers veut inscrire dans une forme parfaite une harmonie parfaite. Il veut, à chaque toile, le paradis de l’oeil, la beauté pure. " - Philippe Dagen
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+ OPTICAL ART / 1955-1968 / Nicolas Schöffer (cybernetic art), Larry Poons, Bridget Riley, etc.
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