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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

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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
Max Ernst
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
German engraver
Campagnola, Domenico: The Assumption of the Virgin
Domenico Campagnola
Italian artist
László Moholy-Nagy
Hungarian artist
Thomas Eakins, detail of a self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1902; in the National Academy of Design, New York.
Thomas Eakins
American painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Matthias Grünewald
German artist
Bill Traylor
American artist
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
John James Audubon
John James Audubon
American artist
Schongauer, Martin; Virgin and Child
Martin Schongauer
German engraver

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