Josef Albers Zeefdruk 'Homage to a square' 1968

GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION

Josef Albers (1888 - 1976 Germany)

Zeefdruk 'Homage to a square' 1968

Druck Herbert Geier, uitgever George Wittenborn New York, 1968

Geometric abstraction is a form of abstract art based on the use of geometric forms sometimes, though not always, placed in non-illusionistic space and combined into non-objective (non-representational) compositions. Although the genre was popularized by avant-garde artists in the early twentieth century, similar motifs have been used in art since ancient times.

Josef Albers (Germany, March 19, 1888 – March 25, 1976) was a German-born American artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of modern art education programs of the twentieth century.