Various Writings

“Owl By Sunlight/Eule bei Sonnenschein,” typescripts and typescript
carbons with handwritten corrections

"Particularly 'White Cross' should speak by itself ...," typescript, circa 1943

Other artists, architects and writers includes Ed Barnes (anecdote about JA's painting "Legendary Pasture"), Paul Beidler (anecdote about JA as a teacher) Max Beckmann, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, van Doesburg, Clement Greenberg, Will Grohmann (includes German obituary), Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus (includes clipping on Gropius), Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock, Tut Schlemmer, Frank Lloyd Wright

Miscellaneous notes from a disassembled folder (includes notes about Black Mountain College)

Notes for a speech at opening of JA exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 18 1971 [see IIc. Solo Exhibitions Box 48 Folder 20]

Notes on student Elinor Evan’s MFA thesis, “Implications of Some Gestalt Perception in a Group of Contemporary Paintings”

Notes (includes photocopies of early JA writings, drafts and published poems, writings on art and artists, diagram for folded paper beard, notes for statement in print portfolio Never Before)

Notes (includes preparatory work for JA teaching at Harvard, notes on Black Moutain College, note on Japanese art, notes on John Andrew Rice, lists of addresses, notes on press about Black Mountain College, notes on exhibitions, preparatory notes for
lectures or classes)

Notes (includes notes on paintings and other artworks, notes on gifts and loans of works, notes on criticism of JA work as “degenerate”, lists of recipients for holiday cards, to do lists, lists for titles, drafts of letters, notes on Bauhaus by Hans Wingler, list of talks and writings from Black Mountain College)

Notes (includes notes on translations, notes on glass works, notes on text for Interaction of Color and Formulation : Articulation, notes on titles, notes on paintings and prints, invitation to 1947 exhibition of work by Josef Albers in Denton Texas, notes on color circles, notes on Documenta III, notes on Mexican Lithographs, to do lists)

Notes (includes lists of gifts, to do lists, notes on Paintings, lists of stained glass windows, notes on Bauhaus by Hans Wingler, notes on other artists and institutions, notes on loans and exhibitions)

Notes (includes notes on paintings and collectors, lists of recipients for holiday cards, lists of addresses, notes on prints, lists of titles, notes about László Moholy-Nagy)

Notes on Anni Albers (two items: Paul Klee reproduction, and sheet of paper with “Anni Albers” written on it)

Acha, Juan “Josef Albers: Homage to the Square,” for Cultura
Peruana October-December, 1964

Albrecht, Hans Joachim “Josef Albers: Homage to the Square,” for
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, April 1971 Krefeld exhibition catalogue

Arp, Hans/Jean “Josef Albers,” (English translation by Anni Albers) (includes 2 copies of der technische akademiker nos. 7 and 8, 1958, in which Arp’s poem is published, as well as an illustration of a Structural Constellation and an accompanying article “Test auf Vorurteile” by “Ro” probably the journal’s editor Bruno Rothschuh)

Baljeau, Joost “The Hegelian Romantic Negation in Modern
Plastic Art”

Barnstone, Willis “For Josef Albers” (on the occasion of JA’s
Yale University retirement)

Beckmann, Hannes “Formative Years”

Boyden, Katrina “The Background of the Bauhaus and the Word of Josef Albers,” Senior thesis Bennington College, June

Chanes, Rafael “Ode to the Square”

Charlot, Jean “Nature and the Art of Josef Albers,” reprint from College Art Journal, Spring 1956

Clay, Jean “Albers: Three Stages of Logic,” typescript incomplete, typescript photocopy and photocopy of article in Rhobo Spring 1958

Conant, Howard “The Pursuit of Excellence: An Address delivered by Professor Howard Conant Chairman, Department of Art Education, New York University, to the National Committee on Art Education at the Museum of Modern Art on 2 May 1963” (includes letter from Conant to JA, November 15 1963)

Crespo de la Serna, Jorge Juan “Josef Albers y lo Abstracto en la Arte”

Culley, John H. Untitled, August 14, 1938, for catalogue of exhibition “Josef Albers” at the Artists Gallery,New York, December 6–31, 1938 (see Box 45 Folder 8)

Degand, Léon “Albers,” from Aujour d’hui No. 15

Diament de Sujo, Clara “Josef Albers” May 1966. Spanish with English translation by Bonnie Lee Thompson

Dörner, Alexander Untitled, February

Duault, Alain “Albers” (à Ernest Beyeler) May 5, 73

Farrell, Nancy “Prismatic II,” (verbessert bei Frau Moellenhoff) A short appreciation of a painting by Josef Albers written in German. Farrell was a student at BMC ca. 1935–37. Anno Moellenhoff was a faculty member.

Folds, Thomas. Untitled January 6, 1952

Fuller, Buckminster “Josef Albers 1888–1976”

Gerstner, Karl “Aphorismen zu 80 Jahre Albers,” October 27, 1967

Golden, Fred. Untitled (includes JA handwritten note)

Graham (possibly John), Untitled, for catalogue of exhibition “Josef Albers” at the Artists Gallery, New York, December 6–31, 1938 (see Box 45 Folder 8)

Greene, Balcomb. Untitled, for catalogue of exhibition “Josef Albers” at the Artists Gallery, New York, December 6–31, 1938 (see Box 45 Folder 8)

Grohmann, Will. Various

Hildebrandt, Hans “Josef Albers”

Huffner, Fritz C. Various. (includes notes by JA)

Imdahl, Max “On Josef Albers’s Structural Constellations"

Jaffé, Hans “Josef Albers: Studie voor “homage to the square: blue depth,” Gemeente-museum den Haag

Hess, Thomas B., "Homage to Albers," for March–April 1973 Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Le Ricolais, Robert “Bertrachtungen über die Graphiken von Josef Albers“ for Art International March 20 1968

Lord, James “Josef Albers: The Exercise of Integrity”

Mérida, Carlos. Untitled, for catalogue of exhibition “Josef Albers” at the Artists Gallery, New York, December 6–31, 1938 (see Box 45 Folder 8)

Morris, George L.K. Untitled, for catalogue of exhibition “Josef Albers” at the Artists Gallery, New York, December 6–31, 1938 (see Box 45 Folder 8)

Mokry, Uvod 1928 lecture on Bauhaus and JA (includes photocopy of original lecture and transcript translation with 1968 letter from translator, Zdenka Pospisil)

Nakahara, Yusuke “Homage to the Square: Albers and Abstract Art,” from Sekai, September 1964

Nilson, Karl-Gustaf “Josef Albers: Interaction of Color"

Rogo, Elsa. Untitled, for catalogue of exhibition “Josef Albers” at the Artists Gallery,New York, December 6–31, 1938 (see Box 45 Folder 8)

Aline B. Saarinen Quote from New York Times October 31, 1954

“Josef Albers,” for Neue Zürcher Zeitung

“Fifteen Statements for Josef Albers”

“Experiences with Josef Albers”

“Homage to Josef Albers,” for Kerstner-Gessellschaft, Hannover May–June 1968

Von Eckardt, Wolf “What the Bauhaus Taught: Obsolete or Viable” for Horizon, November 1961. Typescript.

Unidentified Introduction for JA lecture at Virginia Museum of Fine Art November 21 1966

Unidentified “The Square Affair”

Unidentified “Reflections on the Graphisms of Josef Albers”

Unidentified

Notes on Ed Barnes, Paul Beidler and “PM”s words on JA

Huffner, Fritz C. German Translation of JA's Search vs. Research (incomplete)

Apollonio, Umbro “Albers,” for Graphic Tectonics (German translation by Elisabeth Navarini)

Gropius, Walter “Speech delivered at the Harvard Club of Boston at the Alumni Dinner for Walter Gropius’s 75th Birthday,” May 24

von Herrmann, Rolf-Dieter "Uber das Gesellschaftliche sein des Kunstlers."

Matisse, Henri. Untitled letter to Henry Clifford February 13 1948, (published in Perspecta 4, 1957)

Breuer, Martha. “Revision of the Genus Rhynchosciara Rübsaamen (Diptera, Sciardae) in the Neotropical Region”