GLUCKSMAN GALLERY, CORK
Curated by Nicholas Fox Weber, Director of the Josef and Anni Albers
Foundation, this exhibition presents the work of the great
Bauhaus-trained modernist in a new way. The Sacred Modernist: Josef
Albers as a Catholic Artist brings together works from all phases of
Albers’s life. It presents his earliest sketches of cathedrals in
Germany, includes numerous glass pieces from his time at the Bauhaus and
North Carolina’s Black Mountain College, and culminates in his final
1976 Homage to the Square.
In prominent position in the exhibition is the reconstructed stained
glass window Rosa Mystica which was designed by Josef Albers for St.
Michael’s Church in Bottrop, Germany and which was destroyed during
WWII. Through the determined fieldwork and archival resources of The
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, the Lewis Glucksman Gallery is
honoured to present a full scale reconstruction of Albers’s design for
the Rosa Mystica. The window was fabricated by Peter’s Glas Studio in
Paderborn, Germany. This is the first time the re-commissioned window
will be seen in public. The exhibition runs until 8th July 2012.
