I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training.

He studied art in Berlin Essen and Munich before enrolling as a student in the basic course of Johannes Itten at the prestigious Weimar Bauhaus in 1920. Albers worked at Yale until he retired from teaching in 1958. In the 1960s Walter Gropius who was designing the Pan Am Building with Emery Roth & Sons and Pietro Belluschi commissioned Albers to make a mural.