Tag: Josef Albers

Josef Albers became the first student of the original Bauhaus, in Weimar Germany, to join the school’s faculty. He had trained there as a painter, and was hired to teach a workshop on the craft of stained glass. But the school’s climate of experimentation—and in particular its animating interest in the tension between handcrafted and mechanical forms of production—would eventually push him to explore the emerging medium of photography