Frederick A. Horowitz

Frederick A. Horowitz, lead author of the seminal text on Josef Albers’s teaching, Josef Albers: To Open Eyes. The Bauhaus, Black Mountain and Yale(Phaidon 2006) was a student at Yale College in 1956 when he took Albers’s drawing course. After graduating with a BFA from Yale in 1962 and an MFA in painting from the University of Michigan in 1964, Fred went on to his own long career as a teacher of art. He never forgot the lessons he learned from Josef Albers and continued to give lectures, talks and workshops informed by Albers’s teaching.

In this video, Fred Horowitz talks about his experiences in Josef Albers’s classroom and explains some of the exercises from Interaction of Color.