Joseph Albers – one of the most representative ... Two years later, the couple took their first trip to Mexico, which was just then beginning to discover its archaeological past. For the Albers it was ...

This much, especially the passion part, is demonstrated by “Josef Albers in Mexico,” a quietly stunning ... developed into a landmark 1963 book, “Interaction of Color.” ...

now housed at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, in Bethany, Connecticut, forms the archival backbone of the exhibition. Anni and Josef began collecting Prehispanic objects and textiles during ...

Albers’s interest in pre-Columbian art dates to his tenure at the Bauhaus, but in Mexico Albers discovered that the very methods and techniques he had pursued in Germany predated him by millennia.

Here he discusses six of the most interesting projects from the book. Called Anni & Josef ... that you're heading on a holiday to Mexico." B by Anni Albers, 1968 After being introduced to ...

Beginning in the mid-1930s Albers traveled frequently to Mexico, which he declared was "truly the promised land of Abstract art" in a letter to his Bauhaus colleague Wassily Kandinsky. Works from ...

From the mid-nineteen-thirties to the late sixties, Albers and his wife, Anni, often travelled to Mexico; this striking show makes a case for the country’s impact on his art, as the German ...