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Josef Albers was born on March 19, 1888, into a Roman Catholic family of craftsmen in the industrial Ruhr district of Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany [1]. He was the only child of a house painter, Lorenz Albers. His Westphalian family tradition was crafts, blacksmiths on his mother’s side, carpenters, and handymen on his father’s side.
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Shamey, R. (2020). Albers, Josef 1888–1976. In: Pioneers of Color Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30811-1_63
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