Anni Albers papers
name: label: Creator
content: Albers, Anni
label: Names
content: Bauhaus
label: Names
content: Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
topic: label: Occupation
content: Art teachers -- Connecticut -- New Haven
label: Occupation
content: Authors -- Connecticut -- New Haven
label: Occupation
content: Printmakers -- Connecticut -- New Haven
label: Occupation
content: Weavers -- Connecticut -- New Haven
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women educators
label: Topic
content: Women authors
label: Topic
content: Women printmakers
label: Topic
content: Women textile artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Anni Albers donated the papers in 1969.
creator: label: Creator
content: Albers, Anni
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content: Anni Albers papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of artist and weaver Anni Albers measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1924-1969. They consist primarily of printed materials about Alber's exhibitions, Bauhaus training, and Black Mountain weaving classes.
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a textile designer, weaver, writer, and printmaker who worked in Connecticut and at the Black Mountain College in North Carolina. 

Anni Albers was born in Germany in 1899 and attended the Bauhaus where she met her husband designer Josef Albers in 1922; they married in 1925. At the Bauhaus. she experimented with new materials for weaving and executed richly colored designs on paper for wall hangings and textiles in silk, cotton, and linen yarns.

When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau, the Albers lived alongside the families of artist teachers Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Oscar Schlemmer, and others in one of the masters' houses designed by Gropius. In 1933, the Albers emigrated to the U.S. to work at the experimental Black Mountain College in North Carolina. Both taught at Black Mountain until 1949. During these years Anni Albers' weavings were shown throughout the US and she published many articles on textiles and design, culminating in a 1949 show at the Museum of Modern Art, the first of its kind for a textile artist. 

In 1950, Josef accepted the position of chair of the design department at Yale and the Albers moved to Connecticut. During the 1950s and 1960s, Anni worked productively from a home studio, producing fabric patterns, creating "pictorial" weavings, and writing articles and books about weaving, including On Designing in 1952 and On Weaving in 1965. During the 1960s she also started printmaking and devoted much of her later career to this artform. 

Anni Albers died in Connecticut in 1994.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1924-1969
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.albeanni
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as one series:

Series 1: Printed Materials, 1929-1969 (Box 1; 0.2 linear feet)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed in 2011.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Content Note
content: The papers of artist and weaver Anni Albers measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1924-1969. They consist primarily of printed materials about Alber's exhibitions, Bauhaus training, and Black Mountain weaving classes.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Material
content: Also found among the holdings of the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview with Anni Albers by Sevim Fesci on July 5, 1968.