Subject Files

The Subject Files series includes printed materials collected by Josef Albers on individuals, including artists and other notable people, various subjects relating to art and education and the Bauhaus. Josef often handwrote comments on the printed materials.

Description

Folder

Individuals
- Adler, Bruno
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  90
  Folder
  1
- Anderson, Malcolm Jordan
  Dates
  1961
  Box
  90
  Folder
  2
- Antes, Horst
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  90
  Folder
  3
- Anuskiewicz, Richard
  Dates
  1963–1976
  Box
  90
  Folder
  4
- Arnheim, Rudolf
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  90
  Folder
  5
- Arp, Hans
  Dates
  1958–1971
  Box
  90
  Folder
  6
- Asawa Lanier, Ruth
  Dates
  1969
  Box
  90
  Folder
  7
- Barrágan, Luis
  Dates
  undated 1955–1971
  Box
  90
  Folder
  8
- Bayer, Herbert
  Dates
  1955–1971
  Box
  90
  Folder
  9
- Beckmann, Hannes
  Dates
  1964–1975
  Box
  90
  Folder
  10
- Beckmann, Max
  Dates
  1964–1972
  Box
  90
  Folder
  11
- Bertoia, Harry
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  90
  Folder
  12
- Bill, Max
  Dates
  1945–1976
  Box
  90
  Folder
  13–14
- Bittleman, Arnold
  Dates
  1965–1968
  Box
  90
  Folder
  15
- Blaser, Werner
  Dates
  1967
  Box
  90
  Folder
  16(1)
- Bliss, Anna Campbell
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  90
  Folder
  16(2)
- Boehm, Gottfried
  Dates
  1974
  Box
  90
  Folder
  16(3)
- Bogler, Theodor P.
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  90
  Folder
  17
- Bonies, Bob
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  90
  Folder
  18
- Bosch, Hieronymus
  Dates
  1955
  Box
  90
  Folder
  19
- Boyd, Rutherford
  Dates
  1930–1935
  Box
  90
  Folder
  20
- Breuer, Marcel
  Dates
  1947–1974
  Box
  90
  Folder
  21
- Brunius, Teddy
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  90
  Folder
  22
- Bryden, Robert
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  91
  Folder
  1
- Budnick, Sidney
  Dates
  1962
  Box
  91
  Folder
  2
- Cage, John
  Dates
  1965–1967
  Box
  91
  Folder
  3
- Calderara, Antonio
  Dates
  1964–1976
  Box
  91
  Folder
  4
- Carlberg, Norman and Robert Engman
  Dates
  1962–1976
  Box
  91
  Folder
  5
- Cézanne, Paul
  Dates
  1963–1970
  Box
  91
  Folder
  6
- Chagall, Marc
  Dates
  1936–1966
  Box
  91
  Folder
  7
- Clark, Kenneth
  Dates
  1967
  Box
  91
  Folder
  8
- Clemens, Roman
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  91
  Folder
  9
- Cornell, Joseph
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  91
  Folder
  10
- Dali, Salvador
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  91
  Folder
  11
- Day, John
  Dates
  1967
  Box
  91
  Folder
  12
- DeKooning, Willem
  Dates
  1968–1969
  Box
  91
  Folder
  13
- Dexel, Walter
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  91
  Folder
  14
- Dix, Otto
  Dates
  1966
  Box
  91
  Folder
  15
- Duarte, Angel
  Dates
  1971
  Box
  91
  Folder
  16
- Duchamp, Marcel
  Dates
  1965–1971
  Box
  91
  Folder
  17
- Dürer, Albrecht
  Dates
  1970–1971
  Box
  91
  Folder
  18(1)
- Emmerich, D.G.
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  91
  Folder
  18(2)
- Engman, Robert
  Dates
  1960–1966
  Box
  91
  Folder
  19
- Ernst, Max
  Dates
  1966–1975
  Box
  91
  Folder
  20
- Farmanfarmaian, Monir
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  91
  Folder
  21(1)
- Feininger, Lyonel and Lux
  Dates
  1961
  Box
  91
  Folder
  21(2)
- Fuller, Buckminster
  Dates
  1965–1976
  Box
  91
  Folder
  23
- Gerstner, Karl
  Dates
  1961–1976
  Box
  91
  Folder
  24
- Giacometti, Alberto
  Dates
  1948
  Box
  91
  Folder
  25
- Goeritz, Mathias
  Dates
  1960–1962
  Box
  91
  Folder
  26
- Gräsel, Friedrich
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  91
  Folder
  27(1)
- Grohmann, Will
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  91
  Folder
  27(2)
- Gropius, Walter
  Dates
  1940–1969
  Box
  91
  Folder
  28
- Hämäläinen, Kauko
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  91
  Folder
  29
- Hauptmann, Ivo
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  91
  Folder
  30
- Fiedler, Horst (includes photographs of "adjustable, elastic,
  reclining chair")
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  91
  Folder
  undated
- Held, Al
  Dates
  1973
  Box
  92
  Folder
  1
- Hélion, Jean
  Dates
  1939
  Box
  92
  Folder
  2
- Helms, Dietrich
  Dates
  1966–1970
  Box
  92
  Folder
  3
- Hölzel, Adolf
  Dates
  1969
  Box
  92
  Folder
  4
- Hildebrandt, Hans
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  5
- Hinman, Charles
  Dates
  1975
  Box
  92
  Folder
  6
- Holweck, Oskar
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  92
  Folder
  7
- Honegger, Gottfried
  Dates
  1964
  Box
  92
  Folder
  8
- Horwitz, Channa
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  92
  Folder
  9
- Howe, George (January 29 1954 New Haven Register clipping of
  Louis Kahn and others present JA work to Howe)
  Dates
  1954
  Box
  92
  Folder
  10
- Itten, Johannes
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  11
- Ives, Norman
  Dates
  1965–1970
  Box
  92
  Folder
  12
- Jaffé, Hans
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  92
  Folder
  13
- Janis, Sidney
  Dates
  1960–1968
  Box
  92
  Folder
  14
- Jensen, Alfred
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  15
- Johnson, Ray
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  16
- Joseph, William
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  17(1)
- Kaiser, Hans
  Dates
  1965
  Box
  92
  Folder
  17(2)
- Kandinsky, Wassily
  Dates
  1933–1974
  Box
  92
  Folder
  18
- Katayama, Toshihiro
  Dates
  1968–1971
  Box
  92
  Folder
  19
- Kepes, Gyorgy
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  92
  Folder
  20
- Klee, Paul
  Dates
  1967–1976
  Box
  92
  Folder
  21
- Knepper, Hedda
  Dates
  1974
  Box
  92
  Folder
  22
- Koehler, Reinhold
  Dates
  1961
  Box
  92
  Folder
  23
- Kokoschka, Oskar
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  24
- Kranz, Kurt
  Dates
  1960–1968
  Box
  92
  Folder
  25
- Kupka, Frantisek
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  26
- Le Corbusier
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  27
- Le Parc, Julio
  Dates
  1973
  Box
  92
  Folder
  28(1)
- Leppien, Jean
  Dates
  1965
  Box
  92
  Folder
  28(2)
- Leichner, Margaret
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  92
  Folder
  29
- Lindner, Richard
  Dates
  1968–1971
  Box
  92
  Folder
  30
- Londenberg, Kurt
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  31
- Malone, Nan
  Dates
  1960
  Box
  92
  Folder
  32
- Mayer, Hans
  Dates
  1967
  Box
  92
  Folder
  33
- Mayer, Ralph
  Dates
  1967
  Box
  92
  Folder
  34
- Meyer, Hannes
  Dates
  1967
  Box
  92
  Folder
  35
- Mérida, Carlos
  Dates
  1965
  Box
  92
  Folder
  36
- Michel, Robert
  Dates
  1972–1976
  Box
  92
  Folder
  37
- Miró, Joan
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  92
  Folder
  38
- Miyawaki, Aiko
  Dates
  1964
  Box
  92
  Folder
  39
- Moholy-Nagy, László
  Dates
  1967–1970
  Box
  92
  Folder
  40
- Mondrian, Piet
  Dates
  1972
  Box
  92
  Folder
  41
- Moore, Henri
  Dates
  1972
  Box
  92
  Folder
  42(1)
- Morandi, Giorgio
  Dates
  1949
  Box
  92
  Folder
  42(2)
- Morellet, François
  Dates
  1966–1971
  Box
  92
  Folder
  43
- Morita, Shiryu
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  44
- Motherwell, Robert
  Dates
  1961–1976
  Box
  92
  Folder
  45
- Munari, Bruno
  Dates
  1961
  Box
  92
  Folder
  46
- Nesch, Relf
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  92
  Folder
  47
- Nilson, Karl-Gustaf
  Dates
  1967–1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  1
- Nivola, Constantino
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  93
  Folder
  2
- Noland, Kenneth
  Dates
  1962–1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  3
- Offner, Elliot
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  4(1)
- Oldenburg, Claes
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  93
  Folder
  4(2)
- Osborn, Robert
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  93
  Folder
  5
- Otero, Alejandro
  Dates
  1964
  Box
  93
  Folder
  6
- Perdekamp, Franz Grosse
  Dates
  1971
  Box
  93
  Folder
  7
- Perry, Charles O.
  Dates
  1968–1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  8
- Phillips, Peter
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  93
  Folder
  9
- Picasso, Pablo
  Dates
  1954–1968
  Box
  93
  Folder
  10
- Pinciotti, Michael Rosso
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  11
- Piqueras, Jorge
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  93
  Folder
  12
- Pöschel, Werner
  Dates
  1971
  Box
  93
  Folder
  13
- Rauschenberg, Robert
  Dates
  1963–1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  14
- Rebay, Hilla
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  93
  Folder
  15
- Reed, Joseph
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  93
  Folder
  16
- Reimann, William
  Dates
  1975
  Box
  93
  Folder
  17
- Reinhardt, Ad
  Dates
  1955–1960
  Box
  93
  Folder
  18
- Rice, John Andrew
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  93
  Folder
  19
- Rickey, George
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  20
- Rockburne, Dorothea
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  21
- Rothko, Mark
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  93
  Folder
  22
- Ruoff, Fritz
  Dates
  1971
  Box
  93
  Folder
  23
- Russell, Morgan
  Dates
  1953
  Box
  93
  Folder
  24
- Saarinen, Eero
  Dates
  1960
  Box
  93
  Folder
  25
- Sala, Marzio and Annamaria
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  93
  Folder
  26
- Schawinsky, Xanti
  Dates
  1971–1973
  Box
  93
  Folder
  27
- Schlemmer, Oskar
  Dates
  1950–1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  28
- Schmidt, Wolfgang
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  29
- Schwitters, Kurt
  Dates
  1971
  Box
  93
  Folder
  30(1)
- Sempere, Eusebio
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  93
  Folder
  30(2)
- Seuphor, Michel
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  31
- Severini, Gino
  Dates
  1967
  Box
  93
  Folder
  32
- Slutzky, Robert
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  93
  Folder
  33
- Solin, Charles Gary
  Dates
  1959
  Box
  93
  Folder
  34
- Sommer, Ed (includes September 2 1966 letter to JA)
  Dates
  1966
  Box
  93
  Folder
  35
- Spies, Werner
  Dates
  1967–1974
  Box
  93
  Folder
  36
- Steinberg, Saul
  Dates
  1952–1976
  Box
  94
  Folder
  1
- Stella, Frank
  Dates
  1966
  Box
  94
  Folder
  2
- Stravinsky, Igor
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  94
  Folder
  3
- Struycken, Peter
  Dates
  1965
  Box
  94
  Folder
  4
- Tauss, Charles [see Related Materials]
  Dates
  1973
  Box
  94
  Folder
  5
- Thompson, Bradbury
  Dates
  1975
  Box
  94
  Folder
  6
- Thomson, Virgil
  Dates
  1972
  Box
  94
  Folder
  7
- Thwaites, John Anthony
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  94
  Folder
  8
- Twombly, Cy
  Dates
  undated 1963
  Box
  94
  Folder
  9
- Tworkov, Jack
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  94
  Folder
  10
- Urbain, Elaine Schmitt
  Dates
  1945–1976
  Box
  94
  Folder
  11
- Urbásek, Miloš
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  94
  Folder
  12
- Valledor, Leo
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  94
  Folder
  13
- van der Rohe, Mies
  Dates
  1953–1969
  Box
  94
  Folder
  14
- Vasarely, Victor
  Dates
  1969
  Box
  94
  Folder
  15
- Vellinghausen, Albert Schulze
  Dates
  1965–1967
  Box
  94
  Folder
  16
- Vivarelli, Vivo
  Dates
  1969
  Box
  94
  Folder
  17
- Vojska, Marjan
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  94
  Folder
  18
- Von Eckardt, Wolf
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  94
  Folder
  19
- Warhol, Andy
  Dates
  1971
  Box
  94
  Folder
  20
- Wasserman, Barton
  Dates
  1973–1976
  Box
  94
  Folder
  21
- Welliver, Neil
  Dates
  1976
  Box
  94
  Folder
  22
- Wilder, Thornton
  Dates
  1959
  Box
  94
  Folder
  23
- Wilding, Ludwig
  Dates
  1965–1969
  Box
  94
  Folder
  24
- Williams, Amancio
  Dates
  1964
  Box
  94
  Folder
  25(1)
- Wolff, William ("Gegenseitige Beeinfluessung der optischen und der
  akustischen Helligkeit," 1933)
  Dates
  1933
  Box
  94
  Folder
  25(2)
- Yamawaki, Iwao
  Dates
  1963–1976
  Box
  94
  Folder
  26
Other Subjects
- Josef Albers resemblances
  Dates
  1964–1972
  Box
  94
  Folder
  27
- American art institutions
  Dates
  1967–1976
  Box
  94
  Folder
  28
- Archeology
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  94
  Folder
  29
- Architecture
  Dates
  1953–1967
  Box
  94
  Folder
  30
- Art, general
  Dates
  1942–1972
  Box
  94
  Folder
  31
- Art education
  Dates
  1951–1969
  Box
  94
  Folder
  32
- Art sales and auctions
  Dates
  1970–1971
  Box
  94
  Folder
  33
- Barwa chair
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  94
  Folder
  34
- Black Mountain College: An Exploration in Community by Martin Duberman, reviews and articles
  Dates
  1972, undated
  Box
  94
  Folder
  35
- Change, July–August 1972. Contains article "Black Mountain: Reflections on a Pioneer Living–Learning Community" by Martin Duberman"
  Dates
  1972
  Box
  94
  Folder
  36
- Bottrop
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  1
- Christmas cards (of interest to JA for art history)
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  2
- Collecting
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  3
- Design
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  4
- Dessau
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  5
- Documenta 1968
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  95
  Folder
  6
- Experiments in Art and Technology, Inc.
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  7
- Geometry
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  8
- German art institutions
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  9
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.)
  Dates
  1974–1976
  Box
  95
  Folder
  10
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (primarily regarding
  acquisition controversy 1971–1973)
  Dates
  1972–1975
  Box
  95
  Folder
  11
- Museum of Modern Art (New York) postwar program
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  12
- Op Art
  Dates
  1954–1973
  Box
  95
  Folder
  13
- Pentagon Pose
  Dates
  1935
  Box
  95
  Folder
  14
- Prints
  Dates
  1960–1966
  Box
  95
  Folder
  15
- Proportion
  Dates
  1945
  Box
  95
  Folder
  16
- Pumpernickel
  Dates
  1968
  Box
  95
  Folder
  17
- Design, roads
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  18
- Road Design
  Dates
  1963
  Box
  95
  Folder
  18
- Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
  Dates
  1971–1973
  Box
  95
  Folder
  19
- Tamarind Lithography Studio
  Dates
  1960–1970
  Box
  95
  Folder
  20
- Typewriting design
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  95
  Folder
  21
- Typography
  Dates
  1963–1973
  Box
  95
  Folder
  22
- Haus Welbergen, Wasserburg
  Dates
  1970
  Box
  96
  Folder
  1(1)
- Yale University
  Dates
  1956–1967
  Box
  96
  Folder
  1(2)
- "Vom Trug der Sinne," Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung. No. 43 clipping
  of article on perception by Dr. Th. Wolff Friedenau
  Dates
  1929
  Box
  96
  Folder
  2
- Miscellaneous clippings
  Dates
  1963–1970
  Box
  96
  Folder
  3
- Miscellaneous photographs
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  96
  Folder
  4
- Catalogues from exhibitions of other artists
  Dates
  1953–1972
  Box
  96
  Folder
  5
- Miscellaneous pamphlets and brochures
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  96
  Folder
  6
Bauhaus
- Correspondence regarding JA's reaction to 1961 Bauhaus
  exhibition in Darmstadt (includes JA's ntoes, letter drafts and
  copies of catalogues)
  Dates
  1961
  Box
  97
  Folder
  1
- Clippings and photocopies from various Bauhaus exhibition
  catalogues with handwritten notes and corrections
  Dates
  circa 1961
  Box
  97
  Folder
  2
- English translation of statement on Bauhaus in Die Zeit ohne
  Eigenschaften (with JA's photocopied notes)
  Dates
  1960
  Box
  97
  Folder
  3
- Postcard with Bauhaus Masters House (from Estate of Elisabeth
  (Albers) Marx)
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  97
  Folder
  4(1)
- Photocopy of "Historisch oder Jetzig" (essay written by JA and
  published in Junge Menschen, 1924)
  Dates
  1924
  Box
  97
  Folder
  4(2)
- Printed material from the 1940s and 1950s (includes newspaper
  article about Franz Grosse-Perdekamp, "The End of the Bauhaus"
  by Mies Van Der Rohe)
  Dates
  1940s–1950s
  Box
  97
  Folder
  5
- Printed material from the 1960s (includes pamphlets from the
  Bauhaus-Archiv Darmstadt, offprints and newspaper clippings,
  "Paper at the Bauhaus" by Jane Fiske McCullough)
  Dates
  1960s
  Box
  97
  Folder
  6
- Printed material from the 1970s (includes clippings about the
  opening of the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, reprint of
  "The Creation of Living Form through Color, Form, and
  Sound– a 1923 article by Gertrud Grunow)
  Dates
  1970s
  Box
  97
  Folder
  7
- Undated printed material (includes "The Legacy of the Bauhaus" by Hin Bredendieck, catalogue of Bauhaus materials auctioned by Ex Libris, photocopy of typescript "What the Bauhaus Taught: Obsolete or Viable?" by Wolf Von Eckardt, announcement of the opening fo the New Bauhaus (in Chicago) in the Art News, offprint of "Zum Gestaltwandel des Bauhauses" by Ludwig Grote, press clippings, "Das Staatliche Bauhaus–die Jahre in Weimar" by Wilhelm Wagenfeld
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  97
  Folder
  8
- List of former students
  Dates
  undated
  Box
  97
  Folder
  9
- Original folder of materials regarding "50 Years of Bauhaus"
  traveling exhibition. Correspondence, handwritten notes, publicity,
  printed materials
  Dates
  1968–1969
  Box
  97
  Folder
  10

Subject Files

Individuals

Other Subjects

Bauhaus