Duo S-Z / Josef Albers
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2009/2.15
- Title
- Duo S-Z
- Artist
- Josef Albers
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- American, born Germany, 1888-1976
- Medium and Support
- Intaglio on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1958
- Object Creation Place
- North America
- American
- Creation Place 1
- North America
- Creation Place 2
- American
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Seymour and Barbara K. Adelson
- Style/Group/Movement
- 20th century
- Dimensions
- 22 cm x 30 cm (8 11/16 in. x 11 13/16 in.)
- Primary Object Classification
- Primary Object Type
- intaglio print
- Physical Description
- This object is a cream colored sheet of paper in a horizontal rectangular shape with geometric forms embossed in the center section. There is no color and the geometric forms are created by raised lines. There is a long rectangle that contains two sets of intersecting cubes. The object title, edition number, artist signature and date are written in pencil below the rectangle.
- Subject Matter
- Albers was a German-American geometric abstract painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, writer, and teacher. Between 1958-1962, while working on his complicated series based on color, Albers was also working on a new series of colorless intaglio prints. These were based on drawings that he called “Structural Constellations”--compact line drawings of three-dimensional forms that would be impossible to construct in real space.
- Secondary Keywords
- transfer method
- associated concepts
- geometric concepts
- geometric figures
- mathematical concepts
- objects we use
- people and culture
- plane figures
- polygons
- prints
- prints by process
- prints by process or technique
- quadrilaterals
- scientific concepts
- solids (geometric)
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 4986 x 1979
- File Size
- 200 KB
- Record
- 2009/2.15
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-2.15/2009_2.15.jpg
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"Duo S-Z; Josef Albers." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-2.15/2009_2.15.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
