Galerie Boisserée (studio) with works by Josef Albers 2024
Josef Albers
Exhibition
23.10.–16.11.2024 (Studio)
JOSEF ALBERS
(Bottrop 1888 – 1976 New Haven / Connecticut)
– Selected engravings on vinylite, drawings and multiples
at the same time, we will be showing:
23.10.–16.11.2024
ACCROCHAGE
artists of the gallery
– paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints
Peter Doig
(geb. 1959 in Edinburgh)
"Carrera"
Farbaquatintaradierung 2002
46,7 x 56 cm, Pr. 24 x 25,8 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 40 Exemplare
[27247]
We cordially invite you and your friends to our opening
on Wednesday, the 23rd of October 2024, at 6:30 p.m.
The exhibition ACCROCHAGE will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue (312 pages, Euro 10).
You also have the possibility to leaf through the catalogue
"GALERIE BOISSERÉE – HIGHLIGHTS – Katalog mit ausgewählten Werken aus den Beständen der Galerie" (PDF) virtually here.
The gallery will participate in ART Cologne 2024 from Thursday, the 7th until Sunday, the 10th of November 2024.
Please see some of the works from the exhibition by Josef Albers here:
Works of art
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
ohne Titel
aus "Structural Constellations"
Maschinengravure auf schwarz laminierter Kunststoffplatte ca. 1966
14 x 17 cm
sign. dat. bez.
[27629]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
ohne Titel
aus "Structural Constellations"
Maschinengravure auf schwarz laminierter Kunststoffplatte ca. 1966
8,6 x 10,5 cm
sign. dat. bez.
[27628]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
ohne Titel
aus "Structural Constellations"
Maschinengravure auf schwarz laminierter Kunststoffplatte ca. 1966
8,6 x 10,5 cm
sign. dat. bez.
[27630]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"Structural Constellation"
Tuschezeichnung 1958
45,7 x 58,2 cm
bez.
[17938]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"Structural Constellation"
Analytische Skizze
Blei- und Farbstiftzeichnung auf kariertem Papier ohne Jahresangabe (1950er)
43,2 x 56 cm, Abb. 23 x 52 cm
[25832]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"Structural Constellation"
Analytische Skizze
Blei- und Farbstiftzeichnung auf kariertem Papier ohne Jahresangabe (1950er)
43,2 x 56 cm, Abb. 40,5 x 43 cm
[27781]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"Homage to the Square:
Ten Works by Josef Albers"
Mappenwerk mit 10 Farbsiebdrucken 1962
45,8 x 44,5 cm x 3,4 cm
num.
Auflage 250 Exemplare
Danilowitz 156.1 - 156.10
[27635]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"Embossed linear constructions (ELC)"
(geprägte lineare Konstruktionen)
Mappenwerk mit 8 Blindprägedrucken 1969
70 x 54 cm x 4 cm, Pr. 20,7 x 46 cm
sign. num. dat. bet.
Auflage 116 Exemplare
Danilowitz 186.1 - 186.8
[21419]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
Blatt 5 aus "Hommage au carré"
Farbsiebdruck 1964/1965
48,3 x 38,1 cm, Abb. 27,9 x 27,9 cm
sign. num. dat.
Auflage 125 Exemplare
Danilowitz 160.5
[24094]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"Pompeian"
Farbsiebdruck 1965
43,2 x 43,2 cm, Abb. 27,9 x 27,9 cm
sign. num. dat. bet.
Auflage 150 Exemplare
Danilowitz 161
[22867]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"SP I"
aus Portfolio "SP"
Farbsiebdruck 1967
61,4 x 61,4 cm, Abb. 49,8 x 49,8 cm
num. dat. bez. bet.
Auflage 139 Exemplare
Danilowitz 175.1
[24827]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"SP XII"
aus Portfolio "SP"
Farbsiebdruck 1967
61,3 x 61,3 cm, Abb. 49,5 x 49,5 cm
sign. num. dat. bet.
Auflage 139 Exemplare
Danilowitz 175.12
[25758]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"SP VI"
aus Portfolio "SP"
Farbsiebdruck 1967
61,4 x 61,4 cm, Abb. 49,8 x 49,8 cm
sign. num. dat. bez. bet.
Auflage 137 Exemplare
Danilowitz 175.6
[21914]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"I-S e"
Farbsiebdruck 1970
54,6 x 54,6 cm, Abb. 34,9 x 34,9 cm
sign. num. dat. bet.
Auflage 125 Exemplare
Danilowitz 194
[22773]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"EK Ik"
aus "Homage to the Square: Edition Keller I"
Farbsiebdruck 1970
55 x 55 cm, Abb. 35 x 35 cm
Auflage ca. 130 Exemplare
Danilowitz 203.10
[27797]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"EK Ib"
aus "Homage to the Square: Edition Keller I"
Farbsiebdruck 1970
55 x 55 cm, Abb. 35 x 35 cm
Auflage ca. 130 Exemplare
Danilowitz 203.2
[27791]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"EK Id"
aus "Homage to the Square: Edition Keller I"
Farbsiebdruck 1970
55 x 55 cm, Abb. 35 x 35 cm
Auflage ca. 130 Exemplare
Danilowitz 203.4
[27792]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"EK If"
aus "Homage to the Square: Edition Keller I"
Farbsiebdruck 1970
55 x 55 cm, Abb. 35 x 35 cm
Auflage ca. 130 Exemplare
Danilowitz 203.6
[27793]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"EK Ig"
aus "Homage to the Square: Edition Keller I"
Farbsiebdruck 1970
55 x 55 cm, Abb. 35 x 35 cm
Auflage ca. 130 Exemplare
Danilowitz 203.7
[27794]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"EK Ih"
aus "Homage to the Square: Edition Keller I"
Farbsiebdruck 1970
55 x 55 cm, Abb. 35 x 35 cm
Auflage ca. 130 Exemplare
Danilowitz 203.8
[27795]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"EK Ii"
aus "Homage to the Square: Edition Keller I"
Farbsiebdruck 1970
55 x 55 cm, Abb. 35 x 35 cm
Auflage ca. 130 Exemplare
Danilowitz 203.9
[27796]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"Equivocal"
aus "Homage to the Square"
Farbsiebdruck 1962
43,5 x 43,2 cm, Abb. 27,9 x 27,9 cm
Auflage 250 Exemplare
Danilowitz 156.4
[25837]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"Pending"
aus "Soft Edge - Hard Edge"
Farbsiebdruck 1965
43,2 x 43,2 cm, Abb. 27,9 x 27,9 cm
Auflage 250 Exemplare
Danilowitz 165.9
[25849]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"I-S LXX a"
Farbsiebdruck 1970
53,3 x 53,3 cm, Abb. 30,5 x 30,5 cm
Auflage ca. 130 Exemplare
Danilowitz 196
[25847]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"MMA-1"
Farbsiebdruck 1970
61,9 x 61,9 cm, Abb. 38,7 x 38,7 cm
Auflage 400 Exemplare
Danilowitz 200
[25848]
Josef Albers
(Bottrop 1888 - 1976 New Haven/Connecticut)
"I-S h"
Farbsiebdruck 1971
50,8 x 50,8 cm, Abb. 34,9 x 34,9 cm
Auflage ca. 130 Exemplare
Danilowitz 208
[25838]
Biography
Josef Albers
Josef Albers (Bottrop 1888–1976 New Haven, Connecticut), explored the artistic dimension of colour and the relationship of colours to each other. Around 1950, he found the ideal form for colour in the square.
Following his academic training in Berlin, Essen and Munich, he began studying at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1920 and took on a teaching position there in 1923. In 1932, when Mies van der Rohe was named head of the Bauhaus, Albers became his deputy. When the Bauhaus was closed by the National Socialists in 1933, he was appointed to the Black Mountain College in Ashville, North Carolina and moved to the USA with his wife, the famous Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers. The move to the United States marked the beginning of a new period in the artist’s career.
Albers experimented with the interaction of colours, forms, lines and surfaces and found in colour a comprehensive artistic means that was capable of expressing everything.
His famous series Homage to the Square was the result of his reflections on theories of perception, which Albers formulated in numerous writings and interviews. The individual works from this series consist of ostensibly superimposed squares of different colours and colour nuances. Here, Albers deals with the interaction of the colours with each other, which can infinitely change their effect through mere juxtaposition.
In his work, Albers was both a painter and a philosopher of colours. As a teacher as well as an artist, he was ground-breaking for an entire generation of American artists. Op Art, Kinetic Art, Colour Field Painting, New Abstraction and Minimal Art were all influenced by his work.
Josef Albers participated in the first and fourth documenta exhibitions in 1955 and 1968; he was awarded altogether fourteen honorary doctorate degrees; in 1968, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1973 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1968, he was also awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order ‘Pour le Mérite’. In 1971, he was the first living artist to be honoured with a retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. That same year, he and his wife established ‘The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation’, a non-profit organization aimed at furthering ‘the revelation and evocation of vision through art.’
We cordially invite you to a virtual tour of our exhibition "JOSEF ALBERS - "Interaction of Color" (2021):