Glass, Color, and Light a J & | a ] = = | | aJosef Albers Glass, Color, and Light As a master at Germany's Bauhaus until 1933, and then as a professor in American schools such as Black Mountain College and Yale University, Josef Albers 1888-1976) influenced scores of young artists. His Homage to the Square series of paintings remains h-century art. Yer Albers's first great works of art—the glass pictures chat he made in Germany starting in 1921—remain little known, First usin ments of colored glass, id then employing a sophisticated sandblastin; ess on glass, Albers created a new art form as spectacular in its mastery of color and light as it was inherently fragile Josef Albers: Glass, Calor, and Light is the first ‘monograph devoted to Albers's work in glass. ‘Accompanying the color reproductions of every extant glass piccure is full documentation by Brenda Danilowitz of the Josef Albers Foundation. This Albers’s architectural commissions i hose works that were lost or destroyed after che artist fled Nazi Germany. Essays by Nicholas Fox Weber, Executive Director of the Josef Albers Foundation, and Fred Licht, Curator of the Pe Guggenheim Collection, illuminate the many also illustrates and provides information on ass and themes suggested by chis extraordinary group of works, while a chronology of Albers’s life and professional career places the glass works in the context of his entire oeuvre. A statement by the artist, an exhibition history, and a select bibliography make this the firse comprehensiv c Park, ca at. no, 7). Glass, wire, metal, and sine, i frame; 49.5 x 38 cm (19 "x 15 inches). The Josef Albers Foundation.