Josef Albers (1888-1976) was a visionary teacher, revered by artists, architects and designers alike. Born in Bottrop, Germany, he taught at legendary, progressive art schools such as the Weimar Bauhaus, Germany; Black Mountain College, North Carolina, and Yale University, New Haven. Founded in the 1930s, Black Mountain attracted some of the greatest luminaries of the time--from scientist Albert Einstein to poet William Carlos Williams. Albers’s cutting-edge work inspired many students now famous themselves, including Kenneth Noland, Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg.