Josef Albers – Homage to the Square - Yellow Climate (1961)

Louisiana poster with the work, Homage to the Square: Yellow Climate (1961) , by the German artist, Josef Albers (1888-1976). Albers worked theoretically and practically with design, graphics, photography and poetry – but it is his paintings, especially his studies of the square – that have left the strongest, most lasting traces. From 1950 until his death – for more than 25 years – Albers produced hundreds of variations on, Homage to the Square .

Like hardly any other artist, Albers has studied the life of colors. Particularly in his works on paper, one can sensuously experience how, through a densification of color, he achieves a complete penetration of the surface and space.

It was in Albers's homage to the square that his ability to maximize the spatial impact of color reached its peak. His search for the essence of his media, and the intimacy of paper, ultimately resulted in the poetry and vibrant life of these works.

Albers became one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, not least through his work, first as a teacher at the Bauhaus school in Germany, after fleeing Nazism in 1933 as a teacher in North Carolina, and later as a professor at Yale University.

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