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Long associated with the Bauhaus, Albers and his wife Anni Albers were asked to teach at the Black Mountain College in North Carolina in 1933, remaining there until 1949. In 1950 Albers was appointed chairman of the Department of Design at Yale University, where he remained until 1960 (he was chairman until 1958). Among his students at Black Mountain College were Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, and Kenneth Noland. His treatise on color, "Interaction of Color" was published in 1963. His best known series was "Homage to the Square, which he began in 1950 and continued until his death, completing 1000 images.