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Anni Albers German / American (1899-1994) Born in Berlin, Albers studied weaving and taught at the Bauhaus until it was closed by the Nazis in 1933. She had married her professor there in 1925, Josef Albers, and the two immigrated to the United States where they taught at Black Mountain College, NC and later lived and worked in Connecticut. Albers is considered one of the foremost textile artists of the twentieth century, and from her time as a young student at the Bauhaus she created wall hangings that stand on their own as abstract works of art. She took up printmaking in the 1960s and produced only about fifteen lithographs and silkscreens. Exhibitions (selected) Museum of Modern Art, NY, 1938-39 (Bauhaus exhibition), 1949-53 (traveling exhibition of textiles), 1949 (solo textile exhibition) Golden Gate Exposition, San Francisco, 1939 Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1949 MIT, 1946 Honolulu Academy of Art, Hawaii, 1954 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1959 Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, 1959 Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 1975 Collections (selected) Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Museum of Modern Art, NY Art Institute of Chicago Victoria and Albert Museum, London Smithsonian, Washington, DC

 

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