Josef Albers, a pioneering color theorist and influential educator, is best known for his iconic Homage to the Square series (1949–76). These works feature nested squares in varying hues, meticulously exploring how color and form interact to shape perception and evoke emotion. Albers codified his groundbreaking theories in his seminal 1963 book Interaction of Color, which remains a cornerstone of color theory. A key figure in the original Bauhaus, Albers emigrated to the United States after the school’s closure by the Nazis in 1933. In the U.S., he became a transformative educator, teaching at the experimental Black Mountain College and later at Yale, where he profoundly influenced generations of American artists. Albers’s work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in the collections of major institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the British Museum, the Kunstmuseum Basel, the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.