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Annelise Albers

Annelise Elsa Frieda (Fleischmann) Albers (1899 - 1994) was active/lived in Connecticut, North Carolina / Germany.  Annelise Albers is known for Textiles-collage, printmaker, designer.

Born in Berlin, Germany, Anni Albers, whose birth name was Annelise Fleischmann, became a noted textile weaver, printmaker, designer, and craftsperson, considered by some critics to be one of the premier textile designers of the 20th Century. She described her weavings as "visual resting places" (Worringer) and was unique in her methods because she did not confine herself to pre-planned designs but allowed her creations to evolve through the combining of process and medium or material---in other words, to let the special characteristics of the threads and fibers 'lead the way'. Her output included both pictorial and industrial designs.

As a child, she had art private lessons in her home, and from 1916 to 1919, studied at the Art School of Berlin with Martin Brandenburg. In 1922, she enrolled at the Bauhaus, a design school founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, and closed by Adolf Hitler in 1933 as a threat to Nazism. The underlying Bauhaus philosophy was commitme   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9082 characters.]  Artist bio

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