WLS XV from White Line Squares (Series II)
1966
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View on museum website →Medium
color lithograph on Arches Cover wove paper
Dimensions
image: 40.01 × 40.01 cm (15 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.) sheet: 52.7 × 52.7 cm (20 3/4 × 20 3/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist
Accession Number
1991.74.1
About the Artist
Josef Albers
Josef Albers, born on March 19, 1888, in Bottrop, Westphalia, into a Roman Catholic family of craftsmen, received early practical training from his father, Lorenzo Albers, a housepainter and carpenter, mastering skills in engraving glass, plumbing, wiring, and printmaking. After working as a schoolteacher in Bottrop from 1908 to 1913, he trained as an art teacher at the Königliche Kunstschule in B...