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Grid Mounted - Josef Albers
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Description
A geometric construction by Josef Albers, featuring salvaged glass fragments arranged within a wire grid, created during his Bauhaus period.
Grid Mounted is a construction from the early period of Josef Albers, dating to his time at the Bauhaus in Weimar. The work consists of a collection of glass fragments, salvaged from various sources, arranged within a rigid wire grid. This assembly reflects the Bauhaus interest in the transformation of discarded industrial materials into structured aesthetic objects.
The composition is defined by a strict orthogonal framework. Within each cell of the wire mesh, Albers placed a distinct piece of glass. These fragments vary in colour, opacity, and texture, ranging from clear and translucent panes to opaque, metallic, and reflective surfaces. The arrangement does not follow a discernible pattern, yet the overall effect is one of controlled order. By housing these disparate elements within a uniform grid, Albers forces a comparison between the individual qualities of each glass shard and the collective structure of the whole.
This piece demonstrates the artist's early preoccupation with the interaction of colour and material. While later works by Albers often focused on the optical effects of paint on canvas, Grid Mounted reveals his initial engagement with physical objects and light. The glass acts as a filter, catching and refracting light in ways that change depending on the viewer's position. The dark, heavy wire frame provides a stark contrast to the varied tones of the glass, grounding the composition and emphasising the modular nature of the design. It is a study in material economy and the potential for beauty within industrial detritus, characteristic of the experimental atmosphere of the Bauhaus workshops during the early 1920s.
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Museum-grade giclée on FSC-certified archival matte paper, with framed and canvas options.
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Grid Mounted - Josef Albers
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From $39.00 USD
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Fine Art Poster / Small Square (30x30 cm) / -
Artist Biography
Josef Albers
Albers arrived at Black Mountain College in November 1933, unable to speak English. His wife Anni spoke on his behalf; she was fluent. They had fled Germany weeks earlier. Under the Nuremberg Laws, Anni, who was Jewish, was at risk. The Bauhaus had been forced to close. Philip Johnson, then a curator at MoMA, had arranged the position.
He was born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, into a Roman Catholic craftsman's family. He worked as a schoolteacher for five years before deciding to study art, joining the Bauhaus as a student in 1920 and becoming a faculty member by 1922. He married Anni Fleischmann, a Bauhaus textile student, in 1925.
At Black Mountain, his students included Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Ruth Asawa, and Ray Johnson. He left in 1950 to head the Department of Design at Yale, where he taught until retirement in 1958. The teaching produced Interaction of Color (1963), a text arguing that colour can only be understood in context, never in isolation. It remains a standard reference.
The Homage to the Square series occupied the rest of his life: nested squares of colour, painted obsessively, with every pigment and proportion meticulously recorded. The paintings look simple. The colour relationships within them are not. He died in 1976.
He was born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, into a Roman Catholic craftsman's family. He worked as a schoolteacher for five years before deciding to study art, joining the Bauhaus as a student in 1920 and becoming a faculty member by 1922. He married Anni Fleischmann, a Bauhaus textile student, in 1925.
At Black Mountain, his students included Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Ruth Asawa, and Ray Johnson. He left in 1950 to head the Department of Design at Yale, where he taught until retirement in 1958. The teaching produced Interaction of Color (1963), a text arguing that colour can only be understood in context, never in isolation. It remains a standard reference.
The Homage to the Square series occupied the rest of his life: nested squares of colour, painted obsessively, with every pigment and proportion meticulously recorded. The paintings look simple. The colour relationships within them are not. He died in 1976.
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