List of Famous Abstract Painters & Artists

Birthdate: March 19, 1888

Sun Sign: Pisces

Birthplace: Bottrop, Germany

Died: March 25, 1976

German-born painter, artist, and art teacher Josef Albers initially experimented with colored-glass art, furniture design, and metal art, and later pioneered innovative styles of art such as Color Field painting and Op art. His best-known work, Homage to the Square, consists of a series of superimposed squares.