The Prints of Anni Albers

Anni Albers (1899–1994) achieved a perfect understanding of the essence of weaving and the fundamentals of expression. A pioneering member of the weaving workshop of the Bauhaus, the German design school of the 1920s, she was one of the most outstanding textile artists of the twentieth century.
In 1963, in the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, Albers was attracted by the printing process and the creative potential offered by lithography. Over the next twenty years she created a series of prints that translated her innovative textile work into this new medium, introducing Mexican colors into her work and freeing herself from the strict limitations of her Bauhaus production. She explored new lithography techniques, offset printing, photographic processes, and silkscreen, creating a body of work that is published here in its entirety for the first time.