Art: Josef Albers.(Features) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: August 16, 2003| Author: Chapman, Peter | COPYRIGHT 2003 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Peter Chapman

As both artist and teacher, Josef Albers played a substantial role in the history of 20th-century art. German born, he taught for more than a decade at the Bauhaus school, alongside such luminaries as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, until, in 1933, the Nazis shut it down. After emigrating to the US, he worked at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina, before moving to Yale University. Albers' art and indeed his theories...