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Josef Albers Munich 1972 Olympic Games (Danilowitz 213) 1970

Josef Albers

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Description

JOSEF ALBERS

Munich 1972 Olympic Games (Danilowitz 213), 1970

Color silkscreen on 250-gram Schöllers Hammer paper

Signed, dated and numbered in graphite pencil

40 × 25 1/2 × 3/10 inches

Edition 183/200

Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Danilowitz, 213

Unframed

By Josef Albers - famous color theorist and longtime influential head of the Yale University Art Department. This silkscreen was exhibited in the show "On Black Mountain: The Bauhaus Legacy in America", April 5, 2019-April 27, 2019 at the Sager Braudis Gallery in Columbia, Missouri. It is reproduced on page 8 of the exhibition catalogue. It features Albers signature ‘cinetic window’, and is an impressive piece of art and sports history. This is one of only 200 hand signed, dated and numbered prints - (NOT to be confused with the open poster edition of the same image on different paper, which, unlike the present work, only bears the artist's printed signature.) The present work was created in 1970 for the 1972 Munich Olympics. In anticipating of hosting the 1972 summer Olympics, Germany sought to create a positive image for itself. As Arnold Schwarzenegger would write in his memoir "Holding the Olympic Games in Munich was meant to symbolize West Germany's transformation and reemergence in to the community of nations as a modern democratic power". The Olympic committee commissioned several international artists, including Albers design promotional posters to position the event as “The Happy Games” - a term what would become tragically ironic. Artists were free to chose their themes, but also encouraged to incorporate Olympics ideals into their works. Little did Albers, and the other artists, know when they created these lithographs, however, that the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics would go down in infamy as the scene of a horrific terrorist attack where eleven Israeli Olympic team members (athletes, coaches and officials) were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. Nonetheless, or perhaps because of this history, this Josef Albers Olympic print is one of the most famous and sought-after examples from this series that combines art, sport and the international community. It represents the enduring power of art to bring cultures together and promote peace.
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Danilowitz, 213

Measurements

Height:   40.00
Width:   25.50