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Josef Albers

♂  American, born Germany. 1888–1976

Josef Albers has been in 39 exhibitions at MoMA, between 1938 and 1989.

39 exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
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Photo of the exhibition Bauhaus: 1919–1928

7 December 1938 to 30 January 1939

Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky, George Grosz and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Preliminary Course of the Bauhaus

29 July to 11 August 1941

Paul Klee, Vasily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America

23 January to 25 March 1951

Man Ray, Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition De Stijl

16 December 1952 to 15 February 1953

Piet Mondrian, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Josef Albers, among others, were involved.

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American Prints of the 20th Century

8 September to 28 November 1954

William S. Lieberman, Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler and Lyonel Feininger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Drawings U.S.A.

25 April to 5 August 1956

William S. Lieberman, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers and Ellsworth Kelly, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition 20th Century Design from the Museum Collection

17 December 1958 to 23 February 1959

Arthur Drexler, Man Ray, Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, among others, were involved.

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American Acquisitions: Recent Additions of Prints to the Museum Collection

2 April to 31 May 1959

William S. Lieberman, Max Ernst, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Art Lending Service Retrospective

27 January to 20 March 1960

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Ben Shahn, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions

19 December 1961 to 25 February 1962

Henri Matisse, Max Ernst, Jean (Hans) Arp and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers

15 September to 24 October 1964

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Responsive Eye

25 February to 25 April 1965

Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Josef Albers and Agnes Martin, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Greetings!

1 March to 8 May 1966

Ben Shahn, Roy Lichtenstein, Josef Albers and Herbert Bayer, among others, were involved.

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Americans Today: 25 Painters as Printmakers

1–9 November 1966

William S. Lieberman, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell and Jim Dine, among others, were involved.

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Members Collect

27 March to 25 May 1967

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet and Robert Motherwell, among others, were involved.

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The Artist as His Subject

28–30 April 1967

Henri Matisse, William S. Lieberman, Jasper Johns and Marc Chagall, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Artist as His Subject

6 June to 17 September 1967

Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, William S. Lieberman and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection

17 January to 4 March 1968

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Tamarind: Homage to Lithography

29 April to 1 September 1969

William S. Lieberman, David Hockney, Josef Albers and William Gropper, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Graphic Constructions of Josef Albers

8 December 1969 to 24 February 1970

Riva Castleman and Josef Albers were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Technics and Creativity: Selections from Gemini G.E.L.

5 May to 6 July 1971

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray and Claes Oldenburg, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Ways of Looking

28 July to 1 November 1971

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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American Prints from the International Program

3–8 November 1971

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Alexander Calder, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Drawn in America

1 March to 29 May 1972

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Charles Sheeler and Man Ray, among others, were involved.

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Prints for Collectors

26 June to 15 September 1972

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions, 1968–1973

15 June to 25 September 1973

Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Georges Braque and Jasper Johns, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Prints: 1913–1963

3 December 1974 to 3 March 1975

Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Ben Shahn and Charles Sheeler, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Printsequence

3 October 1975 to 18 January 1976

Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Jean Dubuffet, among others, were involved.

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Josef Albers, 1888–1976

26 March to 19 April 1976

Josef Albers was involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints from the Collection

14 May to 8 August 1976

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Abstraction-Création, Art Non-Figuratif

20 September to 4 December 1977

Jean (Hans) Arp, Vasily Kandinsky, Alexander Calder and László Moholy-Nagy, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

3 March to 15 May 1983

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Fernand Léger, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books

Started 17 May 1984

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910–1980

2 October 1985 to 7 January 1986

Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger and Georges Braque, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition American Prints: 1900–1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

18 December 1985 to 20 May 1986

Ben Shahn, Charles Sheeler, Alexander Calder and Jim Dine, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Prints

7 February to 8 July 1986

Jim Dine, Riva Castleman, Henry Moore and Frank Stella, among others, were involved.

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Photo of the exhibition The Photographs of Josef Albers: A Selection from the Collection of the Josef Albers Foundation

27 January to 19 April 1988

John Szarkowski and Josef Albers were involved.

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Abstractions

17 November 1988 to 26 March 1989

Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Jasper Johns and Jean (Hans) Arp, among others, were involved.

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Master Prints from the Collection

6 April to 8 August 1989

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró and Paul Klee, among others, were involved.