The Washington PostDemocracy Dies in Darkness

A portrait of Josef Albers, in all his originality

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It was 1933 Berlin, Hitler had just come to power, and the artist Josef Albers had a big problem: The Bauhaus, an internationally famous school of art and design where Albers had taught for more than a decade, had been closed by the Nazis, who disapproved of its internationalist leanings. There was another big problem: Albers had a Jewish wife.

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