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What kinds of paper structures did Josef Albers create?

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Red origami crane with outstretched wings and pointed beak, displayed against a solid black background. — origami An origami crane.

At the Bauhaus school of design, where paper folding was utilized to train students in commercial design, the artist and teacher Josef Albers was particularly noted for his skill in creating dome-shaped structures from flat sheets of paper.1