Anni Albers was a pioneering artist and designer who fundamentally reshaped the status of textiles and printmaking within modern art. Associated with the Bauhaus, she developed a rigorous visual language rooted in geometric abstraction, structure, and material experimentation.
Originally trained in weaving at the Bauhaus, Albers transformed the medium into a site of artistic innovation, challenging the traditional divide between fine art and craft. Her work explores rhythm, pattern, and the relationship interplay of form and texture, guided by Bauhaus principles of clarity, function, and precision. These concerns extend seamlessly into her printmaking practice, where she translated the logic of weaving into graphic compositions on paper.
Albers’ prints are characterized by reduced geometric forms, layered structures, and a careful balance of positive and negative space. Through both textiles and prints, she articulated a modern visual language that continues to influence contemporary art and design. Her work has been the subject of major retrospectives at institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Modern, London, and Guggenheim Bilbao, cementing her legacy as a central figure of 20th-century modernism.
