Anni Albers (German/American, 1899-1994), Do. III

screenprint in colors on paper, 1973, appears unsigned, unframed.
Image size 15 3/8 x 15 3/8 in.; Sheet size 16 x 16 1/2 in.
German-born artist Anni Albers studied painting with Martin Brandenburg before enrolling at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Though interested in carpentry, metalwork, or mural painting, she was assigned to the weaving workshop because of her gender. Shortly after her enrollment, Anni met her husband, Josef Albers, who oversaw the glass workshop. After their marriage, they moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau, where she received her diploma in 1929.

When Nazi Germany closed the Bauhaus, the Alberses joined the faculty at the Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina. The Alberses left Black Mountain College in 1949, and traveled extensively before settling in New Haven, Connecticut, where Josef had taken a position at Yale University. By 1963, Anni began to experiment with lithography at the Tamarind Institute, a printmaking workshop in Los Angeles. In 1985, a retrospective exhibition featured her woven and graphic arts at the Renwick Gallery in Washington and Yale University Art Gallery. Today, Anni's work is present in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art; and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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Very good condition.