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Born in Bottrop, Germany, 1888
Died in Orange, CO, 1976
www.albersfoundation.org
EDUCATION
1902-05
Praparandenschule (preparatory course), Langenhorst, Germany
1905-08
Teacher certification course, Buren, The Netherlands
1913-15
Art teacher certification course, Konigliche Kunstschule, Berlin, Germany
1920-25
Vorkurs (basic design course), Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany
1925
Appointed a master at Bauhaus
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010-11
Colored Works on Paper, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, traveled to: Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (catalogue)
2010
Innovation and Inspiration, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, D.C.
Malerei auf Papier- Josef Albers in Amerika, Pinakothek der Moderne,
Munich, Germany
Minimal Means, Maximum Effect, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Formulation: Articulation, 1972, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Albers / Albums, Minus Space, New York, NY
Screenprints, Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Interaction of Color, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Portfolios, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Homage to the Square, Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany
Homenagem ao Quadrado, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
2008
The aim of art is living creations, The Gallery at Hermes, New York, NY
Color Genius, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
2007
Arbeiten auf Papier, Rathausgalerie Lippstadt, Lippstadt
Formulation:Articulation, NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
Waddington Galleries, London, UK
2006
Color Genius, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
The Power of Color, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Star Blue, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2005
The Development of an Image, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Homage to the Square - A retrospective, Museo Morandi, Bologna, Italy
2004
Josef and Anni: Designs for Living, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum,
New York, NY
Seeing in Color, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Scottsdale, AZ
Small Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London, UK
The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2003
Black Mountain College: Experiment, Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,
Madrid, Spain
Homage to Color, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
A Legend Reviewed, Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin, Germany
The Prints of Josef Albers, Hirschl & Adler Gallery, New York, NY
Works: Josef Albers, Museum Kampa, The Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation, Prague, Czech Republic
2002
Centre Gorges Pompidou, Paris France
Arp-Albers: Rencontre de Deux Amis, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
2001
Bauhaus: Dessau, Chicago, New York, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Homage to the Square, Galerie Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy
2000
Josef Albers: Kunst sieht uns an, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany
Josef Albers in Black and White, Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG), Boston, MA
1999
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Josef und Anni Albers: Europa und Amerika, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
1998
Grafik 1967, Krypta 182 Kunstverein Bergisch Gladbach, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany (closed, 2007)
Paintings and Photographs, Galerie Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy
Werke auf Papier, Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany
Werke auf Papier, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
1997
Homage to the Square. Zwölf Farbserigraphien 1967, Bauhaus Archiv,
Berlin, Germany
1995
Glass, Color, and Light, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Huldigung an das Quadrat, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
Glas - Farbe – Licht, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany
Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
1994
Vidrio, color y luz, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
Vetro, colore e luce, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Vetro, colore e luce, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
Arbeiten auf Papier, Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
1993
Arbeiten auf Papier, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany
1992
Photographien 1928 – 1955, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
Photographien 1928 – 1955, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1988
Pori Taidemuseo - Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Eine Retrospektive, Bauhaus Archiv, Berlin, Germany
Eine Retrospektive, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Druckgrafik, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte (LWL), Münster, Germany
Josef Albers: A Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Photographs of Josef Albers, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
1980
Sammlung Soppe, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany
1976
Joseph Albers: 1888-1976, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
1975 Serigraphs from Formulation: Articulation, by Josef Albers, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1973
Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, Germany (closed, 2006)
Formulation: Artikulation, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
1971
Retrospective, the first show ever given to a major living artist, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte (LWL), Münster, Germany
1970
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
1968
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte (LWL), Münster, Germany
1966
Joseph Albers: The American Years, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
1965
The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, Germany (closed, 2008)
1961
Albers, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (closed, 1998)
1959
Josef Albers. Zur Verleihung des Conrad-von-Soest-Preises, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte (LWL), Münster, Germany
1947
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
1946
Prints by Josef Albers, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1940
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1936
J.B. Neumann’s New Art Circle, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Arp, Beckmann, Munch, Kirchner, Warhol … Klassiker in Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
2010
Josef Albers / Ken Price, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
I.G.Y., Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City, NY
Konstruktiv!, Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art, Dusseldorf, Germany
Home Story, Galerie Elisabeth Michitsch, Vienna, Austria
Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Geometría en el siglo XX en la Daimler Art Collection, Colección Costantini - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Accrochage, Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Bilder über Bilder, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
Minimalism Germany 1960s, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Gipfeltreffen der Moderne. Das Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
2009
Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY
Collected Visions, Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY
Karsten Greve, 20 years in Paris, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Waddington Galleries, London, UK
La pintura y sus alrededores, Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza, Spain
Stripes/Solids, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY
Abstraktion und Einfühlung, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Anni e Josef Albers - Viagens pela América Latina, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil
COSTANTI del classico nell'arte del XX e XXI secolo, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Palazzo Valle, Catania, Italy
The Bauhaus 1919-1933, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery - PDNB, Dallas, TX
Anni and Josef Albers: Latin American Journeys, Palacio das Artes , Belo Horizonte, Brazil
2008
Is it tomorrow yet?, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Are you all right? You look so...orange., Galleri Erik Steen, Oslo, Norway
Mes annees 60-70, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, Paris, France
Joseph Albers. Donald Judd. Peter Halley, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
De Rodchenko a Sol Lewitt, Galerìa Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Spain
Name Dropping, MITTERRAND+CRAMER/FINE ART/GENEVE, Geneva, Switzerland
COMING OF AGE. Arte americana dal 1850 al 1950, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Farbe, Material, Raum, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany
Private / Corporate V, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
The American Scene, British Museum, London, UK
Pop and Op, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
MAXImin, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
2007
Josef Albers / Donald Judd: Form and Color, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Tendências Construtivas, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY
Visionäre Saqmmlung Vol. 5: Sammlung Gutmann, Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Collected Visions, Modern and Contemporary Works from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
Minimalism and Applied, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Wege der Abstraktion, Galerie Ludorff, Dusseldorf, Germany
Pop Art and Its Affinities, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Summer Stock Exhibition, Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Anni y Josef Albers - Viajes por Latinoamérica, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI),
Lima, Peru, traveled to Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
Antes y después del minimalismo, Museu d´Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundación Juan March), Palma de Mallorca, Spain
After Image: Optical Art of the 1960s, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY
The Optical Edge, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York City, NY
Olga Hirshhorn Collects: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Cutting Edge - Geometry in Art 1910-1965, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Living Color, Vasarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2006
Modulated Abstraction, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
Winter Group Show, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Anni y Josef Albers. Viajes por Latinoamérica, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Albers And Moholy-Nagy: From The Bauhaus To The New World, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Modulated Abstraction, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY
Im Garten der Wirklichkeit - Teil II, Kolumba, Cologne, Germany
60th Anniversary Show, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
Ligne Couleur Espace, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France
L´amateur d´estampes, MUba Eugène Leroy, Tourcoing, France
Société Anonyme - Modernism in America, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
A Way of Seeing - Joseph Albers and Yuko Shiraishi, Leonard Hutton Galleries,
New York City, NY
Le mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Albers and Moholy-Nagy - From the Bauhaus to the New World, Tate Modern, London, UK
Figures in the Field - Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago C - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL
Conversation with Art, on Art. Bauhaus to Contemporary Art, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Prélude - Dessins, gouaches, collages, Galerie Lahumière, Paris, France
Group Show, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic
L’Œil moteur- Art optique et cinétique, 1950-1975, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg, France
Eye of the Storm: The IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland
Illusion – Irritation, Waßermann Galerie, Munich, Germany
Josef Albers / Donald Judd - Structure & Color, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
2004
Human Presence: Works from the Museum´s Collection, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Action Painting. Arte americana 1940 - 1970: dal disegno all'opera, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, Modena, Italy
Beyond Geometry - Experiments in Form 1940s-70s, Miami Art Museum (MAM), Miami, FL
The DaimlerChrysler Collection, Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa traveled to Museum Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa; Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, South Africa
Summer 2004, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
"Drucksache", Florian Sundheimer Galerie, Munich, Germany
Masterpieces of Modern Printmaking, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Matisse to Freud: A Critic's Choice - The Alexander Walker Bequest, British Museum, London, UK
Arte y utopía - La acción restringida, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2003
Popular, Pop & Post-Pop: Color Screenprints 1930s to Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
Summer Travels, The Pace Gallery, New York City, NY
BAUHAUS / NEW BAUHAUS: Photography + Collage, Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY
Guest Art. Das Kunsthaus mit Leihgaben zu Gast, Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
The DaimlerChrysler Collection, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
International Abstraction, Making Painting Real, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Konkrete Kunst - Einheit und Vielfalt, Kunsthalle Villa Kobe, Halle (Saale), Germany
P (OP), Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
2002
Works on Paper, The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR
Black Mountain College: Una aventura Americana, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
The Big Americans - The Art of Collaboration, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
American Abstraction, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Private / Corporate, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Bauhaus 1919-1933 et Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Arp / Albers, rencontre de deux amis, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais,
Paris, France
Flatline, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
15 variations sur un même thème, de Max Bill à John Cage, Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux, France
Collectors´ Favorites, Sammeln in Wien Teil 1, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
Profile of a Collection: The Gordon Lambert Trust Collection at IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin, Ireland
Portfolios, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2001
Oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, Paris
Astratta, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy
Letters, Signs & Symbols - Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY
Rétroviseur (Loués soient les grands hommes !), Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland
Geometrical Affairs, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Modernism & Abstraction, Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
The Modern Woodcut, Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston, MA
DAS GESPINST (von Raum und Zeit), Galerie Cora Hölzl, Dusseldorf, Germany
Die Cabinette des Dr. Czerny - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
De Artaud ... à Twombly, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Light and Movement of the Century Abstract Art, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul,
South Korea
Prints by Painters: American Abstractions, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000
Expression und Meditation, Die Sammlung Rombold,Museum Moderner Kunst (MMK) Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, Germany
Vom Sinn für das Wesentliche; Erwerbungen der Ära Baumann, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave: Artist Immigrants in America in the 20th Century, Crane Kalman Gallery, London, UK
Art concret, Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux, France
Farbe > Licht - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
1999
Cool and Square, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
bis 2000 deutsche und internationale Kunst seit 1960, Galerie Neher GmbH & Co. KG, Essen, Germany
Primed & Unprimed, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Geometrie als Gestalt, The DaimlerChrysler Collection, Neue Nationalgalerie,
Berlin, Germany
1998
Josef & Anni Albers - Europa und Amerika, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
NORTH AND SOUTH CONNECTED: An Abstraction of The Americas, Cecilia De Torres Ltd., New York, NY
Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
The Fervour of DADA, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj, Denmark
1997
Exil - Flucht und Emmigration europäischer Künstler 1933 – 1945, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Produkt: Kunst! Wo bleibt das Original?, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Deutschlandbilder, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Amours, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Color and Paper, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder,
Vienna, Austria
1996
Abstraction Across America, 1934 – 1946, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery,
New York, NY
PAPIER, Bestandsaufnahme XIII, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1995
Würth - The Collection, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Accrochage, Galerie Uwe Sacksofsky, Heidelberg, Germany
1994
Josef Albers/Naum Gabo/Jackson Pollack, Brooke Alexander Editions,
New York, NY
Exposition Inaugurale - Maitres Modernes Et Contemporains, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
Konzeptionelle Druckgraphik, Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
blicke ins archiv der edition und galerie hoffmann: konkrete und konstruktive kunst, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
1993
Bestandsaufnahme X Die Räumlichkeit der Farbe, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Azur, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Wege der Moderne- Die Sammlung Beyeler, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
1992
German etchings: 1960s, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (MMCA), Thessaloniki, Greece
Bestandsaufnahme IX, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany
The Non-Objective World, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
1988
Jean Arp - Josef Albers - John Mc Laughlin, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
1987
Mathematik in der Kunst der letzten dreißig Jahre, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
1986
Arte, paisaje y arquitectura, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
Point, ligne, plan, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
1985
La photographie du Bauhaus, Musée d´Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
American Abstract Painting: 1960-1980, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
RAUM ZEIT STILLE, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1984
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944 , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, traveled to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
The Moderns, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1983
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA
Sur toile et sur papier (art américain), Musée d´Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
1979
Manifestations de l'art minimal, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal,
Montreal, Canada
1978
Artistes américains contemporains, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal,
Montreal, Canada
Bauhaus, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
1977
Tendenzen der 20er Jahre, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Arte USA, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Arte USA, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
Gravures allemandes contemporaines, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
1976
Druckgrafik von Künstlern der USA nach 1945, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
1974
Zum Thema Farbe: Albers - Itten – Lohse, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
1972
Print Making Techniques: Past and Present, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1971
Klassiker der Moderne, Galerie m Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1970
Meister der Druckgraphik, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
1969
Moderne Kunst aus Privatbesitz in Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
1968
Documenta 4, Documenta, Kassel, Germany
Deutsche Kunst heute / German art today: 129, Frühjahrsausstellung im Kunstverein Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
1967
1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Vom Bauhaus bis zur Gegenwart, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1963
American Painting and Sculpture 66th Annual, The Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
1962
Geometric abstraction in America : March, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY
1961
American Exhibition 64th Annual, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1957
The Sphere of Mondrian, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
1956
Josef Albers, Fritz Glarner, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
1955
Documenta 1, Documenta, Kassel, Germany
1953
5th Anniversary Exhibition, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (closed, 1998)
1952
Naum Gabo and Josef Albers, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1951
Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
1938
3 German Painters, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
1937
Four Painters: Albers, Dreier, Drewes, Kelpe, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
DEALER DIRECTION
Galerie Elisabeth Michitsch, Vienna, Austria
Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Ludorff, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galerie Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galerie Neher GmbH & Co. KG, Essen, Germany
Edition + Galerie Hoffmann, Friedberg, Germany
M-ART Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Kunstkontor Dr. Doris Möllers, Münster, Germany
Fesel Modern Art, Sonsbeck, Germany
Galerie Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy
Galleria il Bulino, Rome, Italy
Galleria Biasutti & Biasutti Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Kunsthandel Meijer, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Galerìa Guillermo de Osma, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Karsten Greve - St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Salis & Vertes - St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Galerie Carmen Weber, Zug, Switzerland
Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Richard Green, London, UK
The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
Waddington Galleries, London, UK
The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, NY
Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York, NY
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, NY
The Pace Galleries, New York, NY
Pace Prints, New York, NY
Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Museum Liaunig, Neuhaus, Austria
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Simon Fraser University Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Centre Gorges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Cambrai, Cambrai, France
Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux, France
Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Arithmeum, Bonn, Germany
Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany
Kolumba, Cologne, Germany
Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus, Soest, Germany
Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten, Germany
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Safn, Reykjavik, Iceland
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Trevi Flash Art Museum Of Contemporary Art, Trevi, Italy
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (MOMAT), Tokyo, Japan
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden, Norway
ms - Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Lodz, Poland
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Spain
Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Tate Gallery Britain, London, UK
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
NIU Art Museum - Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell, IA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
AWARDS
1967 Carnergie Institute Award
1958 Konrad-von-Soest Award
1959 Ford Foundation Award