Josef Albers, Untitled, 1921.When he could not afford ...

 

Josef Albers, Untitled, 1921.

When he could not afford traditional art supplies, Albers went to

the town dump in Weimar and hacked up bottle bottoms  and

other glass fragments, which he then assembled into luminous

and vibrant windows.

The glass assemblages were analogous to what the Bauhaus

facilitated: destruction and resurrection. Coaxing beauty

from what to others was nothing but refuse, he demonstrated

the possibility of transformation that was one of the Bauhaus’s

greatest offerings.

–The Bauhaus Group Six Masters of Modernism