Charles Darwent: Josef Albers [2018] hardback CGIFT El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky

'Will endure into the far future

It is September 1938 and during a heatwave Europe tensely awaits the outcome of the Munich conference

iconic female characters

Armada is at once a rollicking

Charles Darwent: Josef Albers [2018] hardback CGIFT El LissitzkyWhile Josef Albers' Bauhaus colleagues Klee and Kandinsky are household names, Albers himself has remained inscrutable. He is best known as the painter of the Homages to the Square, a series of over 2,000 seemingly tightly controlled experiments in the interaction of colour. Yet he did not begin these pictures until he was in his sixties, already several decades into his career as an artist, maker and theorist, much of it pursued in the United States