Frank Stella vs. Josef Albers
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Frank Stella
1936 – 2024
Frank Philip Stella was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, noted for his work in the areas of minimalism and post-painterly abstraction. He lived and worked in New York City for much of his career before moving his studio to Rock Tavern, New York. Stella's work catalyzed the minimalist movement in the late 1950s.
"I think I had been badly affected by.. ..the romance of Abstract Expressionism. ..particularly as it filtered out to places like Princeton and around the countr…"
Josef Albers
1888 – 1976
Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States. Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman Catholic family with a background in craftsmanship, Albers received practical training in diverse skills like engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring during his childhood. He later worked as a schoolteacher from 1908 to 1913 and received his first public commission in 1918 and moved to Munich in 1919.
"Seeing several of these paintings next to each other makes it obvious that each painting is an instrumentation on its own."
Connections
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