Anni Albers

German-American textile artist and printmaker (1899–1994), the foremost weaver of the modern movement, who raised weaving to the level of fine art.

Bauhaus-trained, Albers treated the loom as a medium for rigorous abstract design, and her book On Weaving became a standard — pairing craft discipline with modernist form.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: contemporary. With her husband Josef, Anni Albers taught at Black Mountain College, the experimental school whose summer community R. Buckminster Fuller joined in 1948–49 while first working out the geodesic dome. She was a peer of that same tightly-knit, cross-disciplinary milieu — Bauhaus rigor meeting American experiment — in which Fuller's structural thinking circulated. The corpus's survey of Fuller's art-world context places her among his contemporaries of the period rather than as a collaborator.

See Also

• Josef Albers (Josef Albers) — her husband and fellow Black Mountain College teacher
• We Are All Astronauts (We Are All Astronauts) — catalog of Fuller's place in the twentieth-century art world

Sources

• We Are All Astronauts (source reference) — situates Anni Albers in the Black Mountain / art milieu around Fuller