Architecture research- Anni Albers

Anni Albers was a German-American textile artist and printmaker, born June 12 1899 in Berlin, Germany and died May 9, 1994 in the USA. Anni Albers studied at the Bauhaus and once she'd finished the coursework she chose to further study but this was limited and she began working in a weaving shop where she 'quickly embraced the technical and aesthetic challenges of weaving, however, and would revolutionize both aspects of the medium with her experimentation and modern design', she also knew that the Bauhaus had to have designs created so that eventually they would be manufactured, however she did prefer handloom.

She ended up marrying the master of Bauhaus, Josef Albers in 1925, Anni then became the head of weaving within Bauhaus and they both were central to teaching and artistic productions. Throughout the rest of her life she continued 'designing fabrics for mass-production, creating more artistic handloom work, and exhibiting her work to high acclaim', she carried on with experimentation with weave and also with print work until her death.

Albers states, 'Every designer, every artist, every inventor or discoverer of something new is in that sense an amateur. And to explore the untried, he must be an adventurer', Albers is basically stating that you should go out of your comfort zone within the design world and not just find something new but search deeply for it to produce the best you can. Saying that every single artist, inventor etc. is an amateur is quite a big thing to say as it could be offensive to designers but she's saying that if you don't explore the untried deeply then you won't get a bigger, better result than if you were to spend longer on researching and developing your findings and ideas.

Albers work is inspiring to me because it incorporates abstract work with weaving fabrics;

http://www.albersfoundation.org/art/anni-albers/drawings/#slide6

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I love the different abstract shapes and colours within Albers' work and how each line joins together. Looking at Albers work I found that her husband's work is also interesting and simplistic and creates paintings, drawings, and also architecture reflecting his abstract paintings: