![]() Although Kerr and her husband had fallen out, she said, Josef had retained use of the space rent-free.Īnni explained that she had never been in the room the steps down to the basement were too steep for her, and it was Josef’s private domain. “I think Kerr gave Juppi space in the basement,” Anni explained, referring to Chester Kerr, who had been editor-in-chief of Yale University Press, and using the name reserved only for intimates of Josef, one which Anni, when feeling particularly affectionate, transformed into “Juvel”-“jewel” in German. ![]() We went together, in the dark green Mercedes that was the couple’s only significant material luxury, from their modest ranch house to a building near the Yale University Art Gallery that, when Josef was working on Interaction of Color, had headquartered Yale University Press. ![]() She said we must drive to New Haven, about fifteen minutes from where the Alberses lived, to see if one of the keys would unlock a storage room used by Josef. Josef Albers/The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society, New Yorkīiarritz, August 1929 Ascona, August 1930Ī month or so after the German-American artist Josef Albers died in March 1976, his wife, Anni, handed me a cracked leather case bulging with keys that belonged to him. ![]()
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