Josef Albers and László Moholy-Nagy met at the Bauhaus design school in Weimar, Germany, where they were both appointed masters in 1923. By 1925, the two colleagues became co-directors of the preliminary course, a collaboration that continued until 1928. Eventually, both artists made their way to the United States; Albers arrived in the U.S. in 1933, following the dissolution of the Bauhaus, and assumed teaching posts first at Black Mountain College and subsequently at Yale University, while Moholy-Nagy was appointed director of the New Bauhaus – American Design School in Chicago in 1937. Both of these works, Albers’s Segments (1934) and Moholy-Nagy’s Twisted Planes (1946), are examples of the American periods of the artists’ careers. Though geographically separated, Albers and Moholy-Nagy became—in considerable part through allies of the Bauhaus cause, such as MoMA director Alfred H. Barr, as well as Harvard professor and former Bauhaus colleague Walter Gropius—conduits of the Bauhaus sensibility in the United States.