Josef Albers MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Josef Albers? Josef Albers is an ENTJ personality type in MBTI, 1w2 - sx/sp - in Enneagram, in Big 5, in Socionics.
"Josef Albers tends to be quite adaptable, and he finds it easy to fit into most social set ups and vocational fields." He said of the vocation, "It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible." "And, when critiquing a student's painting, he would ask them what it was they were trying to do in it. If they responded in terms of abstract form, shape and colour he would engage them in meaningful discussion but if they responded in terms of feeling or emotion he would exclaim, "Gotten Himmel! Don't show me your intestines!" and avoid that student for several days." "Albers was notoriously fiery and formidable, once quoted as saying, "If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide." Apparently, whenever he would storm into the dean's office at Yale to complain, the dean would hide behind his desk. This story is unsubstantiated but widely told." ---------------------------------------------------------------- There's a lot of Te manifesting here, since Josef values color nature and geometric harmony more than emotions and feelings. He had rather harsh teaching methods and was aggressive when something didn't go his way. I assume his Fi is pretty weak as he focuses more on the outer world than his feelings. But I guess when he met his wife Annie, his Fi started to develop. I don't know much about their relationship and there's not much video footages where Josef and Annie are seen, but I have the impression they both were misfits even in Bauhaus and they both sought for unique inspirations like it was with Mexican art. Also he is quite adaptive person. So I guess he's an ENTJ, at least based what I read about him. Of course there might be a small probability that he's an ESTJ with well-developed Ne, but he seems too intuitive. His quote about why he prefers teaching over being an artist doesn't refer to Si or enneagram type 6. It's just another reason why his Te greatly dominates over Fi. I'm not really good with enneagrams but he doesn't seem to be a 6 type. He doesn't seem to be a 5 either, as he's more result oriented. I guess he's a 1w2 but I may mistake myself.
Biography
Josef Albers was a German-born artist and educator. The first living artist to be given a solo shows at MoMa and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, he taught at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, headed Yale University's department of design, and is considered one of the most influential teachers of the visual arts in the twentieth century. As an artist, Albers worked in several disciplines, including photography, typography, murals and printmaking. He is best known for his work as an abstract painter and a theorist. His book Interaction of Color was published in 1963.
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