Anni Albers was a German-born artist and designer whose work in weaving, printmaking, and writing helped define modern textile art. Trained at the Bauhaus, she approached the loom as both a technical instrument and a site for abstract composition.
Her woven works translate geometric ideas into material form. Grids, stripes, and interlocking shapes emerge from decisions about thread thickness, density, and color. Structure is visible: the way threads cross and bind becomes the image, rather than a hidden support.
After emigrating to the United States, Albers taught at Black Mountain College and continued to experiment with industrial fibers and new weave structures. She designed textiles for architecture—curtains, wall coverings, upholstery—that balance functional demands with sophisticated visual rhythm.
In later years she turned increasingly to printmaking, creating series of abstract prints that echo the logic of weaving through overlapping lines, grids, and modular forms. Her writings on textile, craft, and design articulated a clear philosophy of making, emphasizing the intelligence of materials and the importance of tactile knowledge.
Albers’s influence extends across art, design, and architecture, demonstrating how textile can operate as a fully modern, structurally rigorous medium.
Anni Albers was a German-born artist and designer known for her pioneering work in modern textile art and her role at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College. Her weavings and prints explore geometric abstraction through material structure and have been widely exhibited.
Anni Albers was a German-born artist and designer whose weavings and prints treat textile structure as a form of geometric abstraction. A key figure of the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, she helped establish textile as a modern, intellectually rigorous medium.
