art bio for children

1. Josef AlbersJosef Albers
Abstract PainterAbstract Painter
1888-19761888-1976

2. ab·stract artab·stract art
Art that does not attempt toArt that does not attempt to
represent external, recognizablerepresent external, recognizable
reality but seeks to achieve itsreality but seeks to achieve its
effect using shapes, forms, colorseffect using shapes, forms, colors

3. Josef Albers
was born in
Germany. As a
young man he
became an
elementary
teacher.

4. He became
an art
teacher at
the famous
Bauhaus
Art School.

5. His first designs were painted on glass.

6. He became a master of black and white prints.

7. These are some of
his prints.

8. He loved playing with line and shape.

9. When the school was forced to close by the
Nazis, Albers fled to the United States.

10. Albers' artwork showed ideas and emotions through
simple geometric shapes and ordinary colors.

11. He became
interested in the way
colors made a
person feel.

12. He is sometimes
called "the
square man“.

13. Josef Albers discovered his signature motif, or symbol,
the square, when he was sixty-two years old.
Homage to the Square.

14. Rather than
mixing, he used
paints directly
from the tube.

15. Josef painted more than 1,000 paintings in
his series of paintings based on the Square.

16. He experimented with color. Each painting
has a different color combination.

17. Later on he experimented with rectangles too.

18. He even tried using other geometric shapes.
What shapes can you find?

19. Josef Albers isJosef Albers is
rememberedremembered
most for hismost for his
paintings ofpaintings of
squares ofsquares of
different colors.different colors.