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 Design: Ivan
Chermayeff
Incorporating Treble Clefs by Josef Albers,
1932
Courtesy of the Josef and Anni Albers
Foundation
"Albers believed that art and music were concerned with the same,
vitally important, territories: the nature of abstraction, the
pleasures afforded by seeing and hearing, the importance of rhythm
and timing, the need for discipline alongside creativity, the
ability to be universal and timeless..." - Nicholas Fox Weber,
Executive Director, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
The work is a unique arrangement of nine individual pieces taken
from theTreble Clefseries created by twentieth-century master Josef
Albers. New York artist Ivan Chermayeff designed the composite
graphic for the competition.
Josef Albers was born in Bottrop, Germany, in 1888. A teacher
from the outset of his career, he held posts at Germany's Bauhaus
art school, Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and Yale
University, among other notable institutions. Albers' career
spanned more than six decades, and he spent much of that time
studying the effects of color and design on visual perception and
interpretation. His series ofTreble Clefimages, begun in 1932,
represents the first of several devoted to color exploration (the
most well known of which is hisHomage to the Squareseries, begun in
1950).
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