Anni Albers

Anni Albers, born Anneliese Fleischmann ( born June 12, 1899 in Berlin, † 9 May 1994 Orange, Connecticut) was a German -American textile artist, weaver and graphic designer. It is one of the artists of the Bauhaus.

Training

Even during school hours Anni Albers received private art lessons. By 1916, she entered in a register kept by Martin Brandenburg study studio for painting and sculpture in Berlin and completed a three-year academic education. After she received as a woman, no admission to the Dresden Academy of Fine Art, she went to Hamburg in 1919 to the School of Applied Arts. Finally, Albers began in 1922 to study at the Bauhaus in Weimar. She took first in the Preliminary Course by Johannes Itten and Muche in part, then in weaving class. From the mid- twenties, the weaving of the Bauhaus is shifted towards industrial exploitation of textiles. In this context, the thesis of the artist is to see that they 1929/30, completed it. She developed this a tension fabric, " a light-reflecting, sound absorbing and easy to clean material of cotton and cellophane for the windows of a hall ."

Life

1925 had married the artist and art teacher Josef Albers, the artist. In 1931 she took over temporarily as the successor of Gunta Stölzl the line of weaving at the Bauhaus.

After Hitler came to power in 1933, the now meantime, moved to Berlin Bauhaus was forced to close permanently. Together with her husband, the artist emigrated to the United States. At Black Mountain College, North Carolina, she taught from 1939 to 1949 as an Assistant Professor weaving. In 1949 she honored the Museum of Modern Art in New York with an exhibition. 1950-1962 Anni Albers worked as a freelance weaver.

Since 1936 she traveled, mostly with her husband, a total of 14 times to Mexico and South America, where she studied traditional weaving patterns and techniques and collected, which were of influence on their Webers as graphical work.

In the 1960s, Anni Albers adopted more and more by the weaving, believing it, given the technical production processes for a now outdated Applied Arts and turned to the abstract graphics.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Anni Albers: On designing. Pellango Press, New Haven 1959, 1965, 2003
  • Anni Albers; Ignacio Bernal include: Pre- Columbian Mexican miniatures. The Josef and Anni Albers collection. Praeger, New York, Washington, 1970
  • Anni Albers: Image weaving, drawing, printmaking. Exhibition catalog. Dusseldorf. Museum of Art; Berlin Bauhaus Archive, 1975
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