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Albers, Anni [1899-1994. Germany/USA. Textile Designer]
Albers, Anni [1899-1994. Germany/USA. Textile Designer]
Anni Albers was born Annelise Else Frieda Fleischmann, the daughter of Siegfried Fleischmann, a furniture manufacturer, and Toni Fleischmann [formerly Ullstein] of a publishing family, in Berlin, on 11 June 1899. She studied painting with Martin Brandenburg in Berlin (1916-19), and briefly (two months) at the Kunstgewerbeschule Hamburg (1920). In 1922 she entered the Bauhaus at Weimar and studied with Georg Muche and Johannes Itten on the preliminary course. In 1923 she transferred to the weaving workshop, where she trained under Gunta Stözl. In 1925 she married the Bauhaus Master Josef Albers. The same year, the Bauhaus moved to Dessau. In 1930 she received her Bauhaus Diploma.
Following the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, the Albers moved to the USA, and from 1933 until 1949, the pair taught at Black Mountain College in Ashville, North Carolina, where Josef was Professor of Art and Anni was Assistant Professor of Art. In 1950 they moved to New Haven, Connecticut following the appointment of Josef as chairman of the Department of Design at Yale University. Josef taught at Yale until 1967. Meanwhile, Anni worked as a freelance textile designer. She designed textiles for Knoll from 1959 and Sunar from 1978.
Anni Albers was the author of two books - 'On Designing' (New Haven, Connecticut: Pellango Press, 1959) and 'On Weaving' (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University, 1965). She also wrote several article on aspects of design and crafts.
Anni Albers received numerous awards and honours including the Gold Medal of the American Craft Council in 1981 and honorary doctorates from Rhode Island School of Design and the Royal College of Art in London in 1990.
Josef Albers died in 1976. Anni Albers died in Orange, Connecticut, on 9 May 1994.
Anni Albers was interviewed by Sevim Fesci in 1968 for the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art Oral History Program.
Anni Albers' papers for the years 1924-69 are held at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art in Washington, DC.. North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh, North Carolina, also has an extensive collection relating to Anni Albers.
Examples of Albers work are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, Germany; the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England; the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Zurich, Switzerland; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy
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Following the closure of the Bauhaus in 1933, the Albers moved to the USA, and from 1933 until 1949, the pair taught at Black Mountain College in Ashville, North Carolina, where Josef was Professor of Art and Anni was Assistant Professor of Art. In 1950 they moved to New Haven, Connecticut following the appointment of Josef as chairman of the Department of Design at Yale University. Josef taught at Yale until 1967. Meanwhile, Anni worked as a freelance textile designer. She designed textiles for Knoll from 1959 and Sunar from 1978.
Anni Albers was the author of two books - 'On Designing' (New Haven, Connecticut: Pellango Press, 1959) and 'On Weaving' (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University, 1965). She also wrote several article on aspects of design and crafts.
Anni Albers received numerous awards and honours including the Gold Medal of the American Craft Council in 1981 and honorary doctorates from Rhode Island School of Design and the Royal College of Art in London in 1990.
Josef Albers died in 1976. Anni Albers died in Orange, Connecticut, on 9 May 1994.
Anni Albers was interviewed by Sevim Fesci in 1968 for the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art Oral History Program.
Anni Albers' papers for the years 1924-69 are held at the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art in Washington, DC.. North Carolina State Archives in Raleigh, North Carolina, also has an extensive collection relating to Anni Albers.
Examples of Albers work are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin, Germany; the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, England; the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Zurich, Switzerland; the Art Institute of Chicago; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy
DESIGN RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (DRP) ©
Smyrna rug, 1925, designed by Anni Albers
Bibliography
1. Herman, Lloyd E. The woven and graphic art of Anni Albers. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1985
2. Weber, Nicholas Fox and Asbaghi, Pandora Tabatabai. Anni Albers. New York, NY: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1999
3. Weber, Nicholas Fox and Filler, Martin Asbaghi. Josef + Anni Albers: Designs for living New York, NY: Merrell/Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, 2004
1. Herman, Lloyd E. The woven and graphic art of Anni Albers. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1985
2. Weber, Nicholas Fox and Asbaghi, Pandora Tabatabai. Anni Albers. New York, NY: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1999
3. Weber, Nicholas Fox and Filler, Martin Asbaghi. Josef + Anni Albers: Designs for living New York, NY: Merrell/Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, 2004
Weblinks
Art Institute of Chicago
Artcyclopedia
Artstor. Images from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation collection digitised by ARTstor [access only by subscription]
Bauhaus Online
Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online [Subscription service]
Cooper Hewitt Smithsobian Design Museum, New York
Getty Library Catalog
Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online [Subscription service]
Jewish Museum
Josef & Anni Albers Foundation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Art Library Catalogue
National Gallery of Australia. Kenneth Tyler printmaking collection: Anni Albers
Rita Reif. ‘Anni Albers, 94, Textile Artist And the Widow of Josef Albers’. The New York Times 10 May 1994
Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Anni Albers papers, 1924-1969
Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Oral history interview with Anni Albers, 1968 July 5
Wikipedia
Art Institute of Chicago
Artcyclopedia
Artstor. Images from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation collection digitised by ARTstor [access only by subscription]
Bauhaus Online
Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online [Subscription service]
Cooper Hewitt Smithsobian Design Museum, New York
Getty Library Catalog
Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online [Subscription service]
Jewish Museum
Josef & Anni Albers Foundation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Art Library Catalogue
National Gallery of Australia. Kenneth Tyler printmaking collection: Anni Albers
Rita Reif. ‘Anni Albers, 94, Textile Artist And the Widow of Josef Albers’. The New York Times 10 May 1994
Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Anni Albers papers, 1924-1969
Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Oral history interview with Anni Albers, 1968 July 5
Wikipedia