Josef Albers was a German artist whose art laid the foundations of one of the most influential styles of the 20th century. Albers' roots trace back to a town called Bottrop in Westphalia, Germany. From 1908 to 1913 Albers worked as an educator in his hometown. In 1918, Albers obtained his first public commission, Rosa mystica ora pro nobis, which was a stained glass window for a local place of worship. He studied art in many major German cities before becoming a student at the prestigious Bauhaus school in Weimar in 1920. Although Albers also studied painting, his preferred method was making stained glass windows. He joined the ranks in 1922 and used his favorite medium as part of architecture and as an art form. A man named Walter Gropius, who was the founder of the Bauhaus, asked Albers to teach new students, due to Albers' vast knowledge. and background. Albers quickly rose through the ranks and became a professor in 1925, the same year the Bauhaus moved to the city of Dessau. During his time there, he married Anni Albers, a stu...