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Facts

Born March 19, 1888 • Bottrop • Germany
Died March 25, 1976 (aged 88) • New Haven • Connecticut
Notable Works “Homage to the Square”
Movement / Style Op art • color-field painting • Abstraction-Création
Notable Family Members spouse Anni Albers

Photos

Josef Albers, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1948.
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Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
Memory, etching on wove paper by Max Klinger, 1894; in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 27.62 × 15.24 cm.
Max Klinger
German artist
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
“Parents of the Artist,” oil on canvas by Otto Dix, 1921; in the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland
Otto Dix
German artist
German artist Max Ernst stands indoors in a casual jacket with one hand on his hip, looking toward the camera, circa 1955 in France.
Max Ernst
German artist
George Grosz.
George Grosz
German artist
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Francisco Goya: Self-portrait
Francisco Goya
Spanish artist
Amman, Jost: The Miner
Jost Amman
Swiss-born painter and printmaker
Campagnola, Domenico: The Assumption of the Virgin
Domenico Campagnola
Italian artist
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László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian artist
Thomas Eakins: Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross  (The Gross Clinic)
Thomas Eakins
American painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
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Matthias Grünewald
German artist
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Bill Traylor
American artist
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
ornithologist, artist, and naturalist
Schongauer, Martin; Virgin and Child
Martin Schongauer
German engraver

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