Josef Albers’ Color Class, Summer 1944, Gelatin silver photograph by Josef Breitenbach
Josef Albers joined the Weimar Bauhaus as a student and later became a faculty member in 1922. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, he was promoted to professor. After the closure of the Bauhaus under Nazi pressure in 1933, Albers emigrated to the United States. He was appointed head of the painting program at the experimental liberal arts institution Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where he taught students such as Ruth Asawa and Robert Rauschenberg.
regarded as a fluke,
we find ourselves
here, seeking clarity;
an intent subsumed
by guiltless ire.
at hand, these claims
lay before us
as they were; mere impressions
upon a landscape scarred
by the tread of progress.
so. I was going through Black Mountain, you know. Killing super mutants. Basic procedure. And then ED-E gets knocked out and I'm like "oh there must have been a mutant in one of the shacks (I was near the crater) and I turn around