Sharon studied under Josef Albers, whose teachings were based on letting the student experience different materials, trying them out, and making experiments.
In 1976, she married Nicholas Fox Weber (cultural historian and Executive Director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation) and moved to Connecticut.
Furthermore, he was inspired by the color theories of Josef Albers.
In his early 20s he matriculated at the Bauhaus, taking courses with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Josef Albers, and left from there to attend the Ecole Photo One in Paris.
Josef Mengele | Josef Albers | Franz Josef Land | Josef Schwarz | Josef Terboven | Josef Locke | Josef Koudelka | Josef Čapek | Franz Josef Strauss | Josef Hofmann | Josef Wiesehöfer | Josef Szeiler | Josef Frings | Josef Fares | Hans Albers | Franz Josef Strauß | Matt Albers | Josef von Sternberg | Josef Tal | Josef Meinrad | Josef Dietrich | Josef Zisyadis | Josef W. Wegner | Josef Vojta | Josef Svoboda | Josef Schulz | Josef Ressel | Josef Priller | Josef Pieprzyk | Josef Pasternack |
Spratt was informed by the formalist art of Josef Albers, minimalist painting by Ellsworth Kelly and Ad Reinhardt, and abstract expressionist painting by Barnett Newman; his work was also deeply influenced by his early days as a sign painter.
The building is also graced with the works of avant-garde, Surrealist or Bauhaus artists Joan Miró, Josef Albers, Jean Arp and Herbert Bayer, and also has a sculpture by Richard Lippold in the courtyard near it.
He began taking color photographs in 1970 after learning the color theory of Johannes Itten and Josef Albers.
Itten's works exploring the use and composition of color resemble the square op art canvases of artists such as Josef Albers, Max Bill and Bridget Riley, and the expressionist works of Wassily Kandinsky.
The permanent collection of the gallery includes works by Berenice Abbott, Josef Albers, Eugène Atget, Romare Bearden, John Buck, Harold Eugene Edgerton, George Grosz, Philip Guston, R. B. Kitaj, Pablo Picasso, and Jerry Uelsmann.
1928 Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Josef Albers