Josef Albers Window
Josef-Albers-Fenster is the name given to 18 flat glass windows in the main stairwell of the Leipzig Grassi Museum based on designs by Josef Albers .
Material and execution
The windows, which are up to 7 meters high, are made of hand-blown flashed glass . The clear carrier glass is provided with an opaque white overlay and a second made of greenish-yellow material. In addition, color and light effects are created by flatly applied black solder and silver yellow as well as by ground lines.
history
The drafts of the strictly geometrical compositions were provided by Josef Albers in 1926 . The windows were made and installed in 1927 by the Berlin glass painting workshop Puhl & Wagner . The windows connect the individual storeys. They were created as a contribution to the exhibition European Applied Arts in 1927 at the Leipzig Museum of Applied Arts, but were also intended as permanent architectural decoration. The Josef Albers windows are considered to be the largest glass design of the Dessau Bauhaus period .
The composition was destroyed in the Second World War, but could be digitally processed using image sources. Thanks to the commitment of the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung together with the Sparkasse Leipzig , the reconstruction was possible in 2011. The artistic direction of the restoration lay with Christine Triebsch, Burg Giebichenstein Art College Halle . The main contractor for the glass work was the Peters glass painting workshop in Paderborn .
literature
Luckner-Bien, Renate: Bauhaus heritage in the Grassi Museum. Die Albers-Fenster, in: Art Aurea, H. 4, Winter 2011/2012
