Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky: Friends in Exile: A Decade of Correspondence, 1929-1940

by Nicholas Fox Weber

Josef Albers (1888-1976) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), artists and teachers at the Bauhaus, were exiled from Germany when the school was forced to close in the early 1930s. The 46 letters in this volume document the intimate exchange between these two friends in a period when the world was coming apart. Despite the tumult, each wrote to the other of his continuous creative evolution, while also providing rich impressions of his new world. For...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300212577
• ISBN13: 9780300212570
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.5" x 10.3"