His influence on design education, continues to inspire young artists and designers today. At this time, he had been awarded 14 honorary doctorates from universities across Europe, Canada, and the United States. In 1971, Albers was the first living artist to have a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, passing away shortly after in 1976. It was during this time that he wrote one of his most famous books, titled The Interaction of Color (1963). He then moved on to take up the esteemed position of Head of Design at Yale. During his time at BMC he taught and inspired a new generation of artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Willem de Kooning. When the Nazi’s forced the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, Albers then migrated to America where he taught at the Black Mountain College, another experimental art school based in North Carolina. He firstly trained and worked as a primary school teacher before formally studying painting at the Royal Academy of Arts in Germany. He then taught at the revolutionary art school, the Bauhaus alongside renowned artists such as Paul Klee, Kadinsky and László Moholy-Nagy. Albers’ built his reputation as a both a renowned painter and object designer. Josef Albers (1888-1976) was a German-born artist, designer and educator. Published by Yale University Press in 1963.
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