Albers, Anni, 1899-1994

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Anni Albers was born in Germany in 1899 and attended the Bauhaus where she met her husband designer Josef Albers in 1922; they married in 1925. At the Bauhaus. she experimented with new materials for weaving and executed richly colored designs on paper for wall hangings and textiles in silk, cotton, and linen yarns.

When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, the Albers lived alongside the families of artist teachers Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Oscar Schlemmer, and others in one of the masters' houses designed by Gropius. In 1933, the Albers emigrated to the U.S. to work at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Both taught at Black Mountain until 1949. During these years Anni Albers' weavings were shown throughout the US and she published many articles on textiles and design, culminating in a 1949 show at the Museum of Modern Art, the first of its kind for a textile artist.

In 1950, Josef accepted the position of chair of the design department at Yale and the Albers moved to Connecticut. During the 1950s and 1960s, Anni worked productively from a home studio, producing fabric patterns, creating "pictorial" weavings, and writing articles and books about weaving, including On Designing in 1952 and On Weaving in 1965. During the 1960s she also started printmaking and devoted much of her later career to this artform. Albers died in Connecticut in 1994.

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creatorOf Brooklyn Museum. Dept. of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. Records, Exhibition views: installations. Anni Albers: Prints and Drawings. 1977. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
referencedIn American Federation of Arts records Archives of American Art
referencedIn Stölzl, Gunta, 1897-1983 and Albers Anni, 1899- : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
creatorOf Albers, Anni. Anni Albers artist file. Whitney Museum of American Art, Library
creatorOf Albers, Anni. Anni Albers : artist file : study photographs and reproductions of works of art with accompanying documentation 1930?-1990 [graphic] [compiled by staff of The Museum of Modern Art, New York]. Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection
referencedIn Mildred Constantine Papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Bauhaus. Correspondence, 1923-1933. Getty Research Institute
referencedIn Albers, Anni : Biographical file. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
creatorOf Albers, Anni. Artist file. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
creatorOf Albers, Anni. Assorted papers relating to Bauhaus designers, 1919-1984. Getty Research Institute
creatorOf John A. Parker papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Josef Albers papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Josef Albers papers, 1899-1973 Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
creatorOf Anni Albers papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Meyer, Howard R., 1903-1988. Howard R. Meyer papers, 1924-1986. University of Texas Libraries
creatorOf Brooklyn Museum. Dept. of Photography. Records, Exhibition negatives: installations. Anni Albers: Prints and Drawings. 1977. Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
referencedIn Josef Albers papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn American Federation of Arts records Archives of American Art
referencedIn Albers, Anni. [Anni Albers] : artist file John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library, Ringling Museum Library
creatorOf Anni Albers papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Papers of Trude Guermonprez, 1947-1976 The Paul Mills Library and Archives of California Art
referencedIn Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969. Papers, 1925-1969 (bulk: 1937-1969) Houghton Library
referencedIn Albers, Anni (Mrs. Josef), 1899-1994 : [miscellaneous ephemeral material]. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library
creatorOf Annita Delano papers Archives of American Art
creatorOf Albers, Anni. [Anni Albers] : artist file John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library, Ringling Museum Library
creatorOf Guthrie Foster papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn Lyonel Feininger papers, 1883-1960. Houghton Library
creatorOf Albers, Josef. Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1973-1975. University of Pennsylvania Library
referencedIn Assorted papers relating to Bauhaus designers, 1919-1984 Getty Research Institute
referencedIn Albers, Josef. Josef Albers papers, 1899-1973 (inclusive), 1934-1973 (bulk). Yale University Library
creatorOf Sherman, Ronald E. Print collection, 1964-1971. University of Massachusetts at Boston, Healey Library
referencedIn Tamarind Lithography Workshop records Archives of American Art
creatorOf Conrad, Hans Gunter. William S. Huff papers, Hochschule für Gestaltung (Ulm, Germany) collection, 1953- SUNY at Buffalo, University at Buffalo
referencedIn Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars. Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars records. 1927-1949. New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Pearlman, Judith. Interviews with Bauhaus masters and students, 1980-1985. Getty Research Institute
referencedIn Busch-Reisinger Museum collection of Bauhaus materials, 1919-1955 (bulk). Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums
creatorOf Albers, Anni. Reminiscences of Anni Albers : oral history, 1985. Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries
referencedIn R. Buckminster Fuller Papers Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
creatorOf Gloria Dale papers Archives of American Art
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referencedIn Oral history interview with Ruth Asawa and Albert Lanier Archives of American Art
creatorOf Oral history interview with Anni Albers Archives of American Art
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associatedWith American Federation of Arts corporateBody
associatedWith Asawa, Ruth, person
associatedWith Bauhaus corporateBody
employeeOf Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) corporateBody
associatedWith Brooklyn Museum. Dept. of Photography. corporateBody
associatedWith Brooklyn Museum. Dept. of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs. corporateBody
associatedWith Constantine, Mildred person
associatedWith Dale, Gloria. person
associatedWith Delano, Annita, 1894- person
associatedWith Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars corporateBody
correspondedWith Feininger, Lyonel, 1871-1956 person
associatedWith Fesci, Sevim, person
associatedWith Foster, Guthrie. person
associatedWith Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 person
associatedWith Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 person
correspondedWith Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 person
associatedWith Guermonprez, Trude, 1910-1976 person
associatedWith Klee, Paul, 1879-1940. person
associatedWith Meyer, Howard R., 1903-1988. person
associatedWith Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) corporateBody
associatedWith Parker, John A. (John Albert) person
associatedWith Pearlman, Judith. person
associatedWith Polsky, Richard M., person
associatedWith Sherman, Ronald E. person
associatedWith The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Library. corporateBody
associatedWith Whitney Museum of American Art. corporateBody
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Orange CT US
Berlin 16 DE
Subject
Art, American
Art
Art
Art teachers
Decorative art
Graphic arts
Hand weaving
Indians of South America
Indian textile fabrics
Lithography
Textile fabrics
Weavers
Weavers
Weaving
Women artists
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Birth 1899-06-12

Death 1994-05-09

Germans

German

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