Annelise Albers (née Fleischmann) (1899 - May 9, 1994) was a German-American textile artist and printmaker. She is described as the best known textile artist of the 20th century. Jump to: navigation, search 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search May 9 is the 129th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (130th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

Anni was born in Berlin. She studied art and attended the School of Applied Art in Hamburg, where she learnt to weave. She entered the Bauhaus when she was 23. She both studied and taught during her time at the Bauhaus, she also met her husband, painter Josef Albers there. In 1933 when the Bauhaus was closed, she and Josef emigrated to the United States. They settled in North Carolina, and she taught fine art including weaving at Black Mountain College. Her weavings were shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1949, the exhibition was the first at MOMA to showcase weaving and the exhibition helped to advance weaving as an art form. Jump to: navigation, search Berlin â–¶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Bauhaus Bauhaus is the common term for the Staatliches Bauhaus, an art and architecture school in Germany that operated from 1919 to 1933, and for the approach to design that it developed and taught. ... Josef Albers (1888 - 1976), was a German artist and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century. ... Jump to: navigation, search Link titleLink title == == State nickname: Tar Heel State; Old North State Other U.S. States Capital [i ,ove dance this wed site dosnt really have a lot of onfo on it so dot wast your time PostalAbbreviation = NC Largest city {{{LargestCity}}} Governor {{{Governor}}} Senators... Jump to: navigation, search From the time of its founding by John Rice in 1933, Black Mountain College, located near Asheville, North Carolina, was known as one of the leading progressive schools of art in the United States. ...

In the 1960s Anni began to make prints. She worked with both lithography and silk screen printing. She wrote, and posthumously her writings formed the base of, a number of books on weaving and design, including Jump to: navigation, search Lithography is a method for printing on a smooth surface, as well as a method of manufacturing semiconductor and MEMS devices. ... Screen-printing, also known as silkscreening or serigraphy, is a printmaking technique that creates a sharp-edged single-color image using a stencil and a porous fabric. ...

• On designing, Wesleyan University Press, 1971, ISBN 0819530247
• Anni Albers : On Weaving, Wesleyan University Press, 1974, ISBN 0819560316
• Anni Albers: Prints and drawings, University Art Gallery, University of California, 1980
• Anni Albers: Selected Writings on Design, ed Brenda Danilowitz, University Press of New England, 2001, ISBN 0819564478
• On Weaving, Dover Publications, 2003, ISBN 0486431924
• Anni Albers, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2003, ISBN 0892072725

In 1980 she was awarded the second American Craft Council's Fold Medal for "uncompromising excellence" in 1980. She died in Orange, Connecticut in 1994. Orange is a town located in New Haven County, Connecticut. ...

References

• National Gallery of Art. Anni Albers
• Smithsonian Museum. Anni Albera

External links

• Anni Albers works in the Harvard University Art Museum
• The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation