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April 2010
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History & Criticism


ISBN 13: 978-1-55595-327-0
ISBN: 1-55595-327-1
160 pages
8 x 10 in.
20 x 25 cm.
30 color plates

♦ Correspondence between two of the Bauhaus movement’s major figures

Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers were colleagues at the Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany. And after the institution was shut down in 1933, they shared a destiny as émigrés—Kandinsky and his wife Nina in Paris, Albers and his wife, the weaver and teacher Anni Albers, in the United States. Their correspondence, covering the period from 1929 to 1939, provides a unique perspective on this tumultuous period in history and in art. Despite the increasingly alarming political situation that serves as the backdrop for these letters, the tone of these exchanges born of a warm and serious friendship is surprisingly optimistic.

Nicholas Fox Weber is the executive director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and the author of thirteen books, including The Prints of Josef Albers A Catalogue Raisonné 1915–1976 and The Bauhaus Group.

Jessica Boissel is an independent writer and the former collections curator at the Museé national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.