ARTalk: Unfolding Color with Fritz Horstman

Unfolding Color with Fritz Horstman, Artist, Curator and Education Director for the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, CT, Sunday, October 20 @ 2 pm | Main Program Room

Fritz Horstman will divide his ARTalk into three parts: a discussion of the Alberses’ art and lives; his new book based on Josef Albers’s color teaching titled Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments; and how some of the Albers’s ideas have informed his own artwork. Josef and Anni Albers were two of the most dynamic and important artists of the 20th century. Both were teachers at the German Bauhaus and at the arts-centric and progressive Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Josef was eventually made chair of the Yale School of Art in 1950, thus bringing him and Anni to Connecticut. Of special note: Horstman has a solo show entitled Unfolding which is on view at the New Britain Museum of American Art from September 5, 2024 through March 30, 2025. Hold Sunday, October 20th at 2 pm for kick-off ARTalk for 2024-2025 season.