Josef Albers papers 1899-1973

Bauhaus

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Educational institution. From the description of Photographs of Bauhaus students, teachers, and exhibits, 1919-1933. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 81840731 From the description of Postcards about the Bauhaus, 1922-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78683279 The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius as a school of art, architecture, and crafts, with the focus on instruction in the unity between the fine and applied arts and i...

Albers, Josef, 1888-1976

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Josef Albers was born on March 19, 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, the only child of Lorenz Albers, a housepainter, and Magdelena (Schumacher) Albers. He attended the Präparanden-Schule in Langenhorst from 1902 to 1905 and then the teachers college in Büren, graduating in 1908. He became an instructor in several Westphalian primary schools. Albers studied at the Royal Art School in Berlin, the Arts and Crafts School (Folkwang School)in Essen, and at the Art Academy in Munich u...

Albers, Anni, 1899-1994

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Anni Albers was born in Germany in 1899 and attended the Bauhaus where she met her husband designer Josef Albers in 1922; they married in 1925. At the Bauhaus. she experimented with new materials for weaving and executed richly colored designs on paper for wall hangings and textiles in silk, cotton, and linen yarns. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, the Albers lived alongside the families of artist teachers Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Oscar Schlemmer, and others in one of ...

Dreier, Katherine Sophie, 1877-1952

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Painter and co-founder/president of the Société Anonyme, Inc. From the description of Correspondence, 1928-1929. (Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)). WorldCat record id: 122577860 Katherine S. Dreier, artist, promoter of modern art, and co-founder of the Société Anonyme. Société Anonyme, organization founded in 1920 by Katherine S. Dreier, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray to promote modern art among the public. From the description of Katherin...

Yale University. School of Art and Architecture

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The study of visual arts at Yale began in 1832 with the opening of the Trumbull Gallery, the first college-affiliated art museum in the United States. In 1858, an exhibition in the Trumbull Gallery generated interest in establishing a formal course of study in the arts. With the support of Augustus Street (B.A. 1812), the School of Fine Arts (1869-1955) was established in 1866. It was formally opened in 1869 with the completion of Street Hall. The first bachelor of fine arts degree was conferred...

Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969

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Architect, educator. Studied architecture at the Universities of Charlottenburg-Berlin and Munich, Germany from 1903 to 1907. Founded and directed the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar in 1919, which Gropius moved to Dessau in 1925 and renamed "Bauhaus Dessau". Professor of Architecture in the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 1937 and Chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1938 to 1952. Formed the Architects' Collaborative in Cambridge in 1946. For further information see James ...

Arp, Jean, 1887-1966

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French artist and poet. From the description of Letters, 1942-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86093273 ...

Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 1889-1943

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Artist, born in Davos, educated in Hamburg. She was married to Jean Arp. From the description of Photographs of paintings of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, 1933-1934. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 420694088 ...

Harvard university, Graduate school of design

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These models were created for the Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition: Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe, June 26-September 21, 2008. From the description of Models created after Buckminster Fuller designs by students of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2008. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865251 Maria Kohlrausch worked in Dept. of Landscape Architecture 1928-1950. She corresponded with Harvard University Graduate School of Design stude...

Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)

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Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 by a group of nonconformist faculty and students from Rollins College in Florida. Headed by John Andrew Rice, they established their experimental college and community near Black Mountain, NC. Artists and writers from all over the country were attracted to Black Mountain and the college became a nurturing ground for some of the best talents of the twentieth century. Among its faculty and students were Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning...

Schlemmer, Oskar, 1888-1943

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German painter and designer; teacher at Bauhaus; stage designer. From the description of Journal, 1928-1943. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77832032 ...

Yale University. Faculty.

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Baumeister, Willi, 1889-1955

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German painter and teacher. From the description of Aus den Studien-Jahren und das Verhältnis zu Adolf Hölzel (autobiographical essay), 1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79136938 German painter, teacher and writer. From the description of Letter : Stuttgart, to Hjalmar Westerdahl, 1949 May 25. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79118685 ...

Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944

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Russian-born painter and writer on art. From the description of Mitgliedskarte, ca. 1908, for Neue Künstlervereinigung München. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80564007 The Russian-born artist, Wassily Kandinsky [Vasilii Vasil'evich Kandinskiĭ] is considered one of the creators of abstract painting. He taught at the Bauhaus between 1922 and 1933. From the description of Wassily Kandinsky papers, 1911-1940 (bulk 1921-1937). (Getty Research Insti...

Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956

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Feininger was an American-born artist who went to Germany in 1887 and returned to the U.S. in 1936. From the description of Papers, 1883-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122520943 From the description of Drawings for Peter Christen Asbjørnsen's Norvegische Volksmärchen, 1908. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84317440 From the description of Lyonel Feininger photographs, 1896-1942. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612196407 ...