SIMPLY A PRINT
One that tells of the career of its designer: Anni Albers (see page 49). Pushed into weaving at the Bauhaus, she discovered the expressive power of Latin American textile art years later on a trip to Cuba. The encounter became a turning point, followed by fourteen trips to South America. What Anni brings back from the Bauhaus: the precise craft of machine weaving. What she finds on her travels: Patterns and techniques from other cultures. She combines both worlds into an independent formal language - as in these color studies created between 1967 and 1973.
Print Anni Albers
Print Anni Albers, Color Study (Blue and Reds)
AT MAGAZIN we are impressed by the consistency of this designer. How she transformed restrictions into energy. How she used a traditional medium to create abstract compositions. And how she used it to develop a language that is still effective today. She worked as a professor and freelance artist in the USA - and became one of the most influential voices in 20th century design. In 1949, the Museum of Modern Art in New York was the first textile artist to dedicate a solo exhibition to her. We are happy to hang this piece of design history, created by THE WRONG SHOP, on our walls.
Print Anni Albers, Study for Do I
The multifaceted play of colored triangles reflects the tension between order and chaos in natural crystalline structures. At the same time, it thematizes Anni Albers' interest in Mexican culture. Inspired by her numerous visits to Mexico and her fascination with Mesoamerican forms, she collected pre-Columbian artifacts and textiles, for example.
PRINT JOSEF ALBERS
These prints from 1965 to 1973 are part of the groundbreaking series "Homage to the Square" by Josef Albers, the husband of Anni Albers, and his two-decade-long exploration of the interaction of colors. The series, comprising over two thousand works, is his most influential artistic achievement. With its mathematically arranged, concentric squares in various shades of color, it has had a fundamental influence on color theory and art education to this day.
FRAME ALPHA
Sturdy construction made of angular aluminum strips and glass, manufactured in Germany. Ideally suited for our Albers prints.
Anni and Josef Albers
The legendary artist couple and design in the twentieth century. Josef and Anni Albers are among the pioneers of 20th century modernism. The couple met at the beginning of the 1920s at the newly founded Bauhaus school in Weimar. Josef Albers visited the Bauhaus as early as 1920 to explore the relationships between art, architecture and craftsmanship at this avant-garde institution. Anni Albers, eleven years his junior, joined the weaving department in 1922, which was the only one open to women at the time. The couple married in 1925 and decades of artistic and intellectual exchange began, which repeatedly stimulated each other's creativity without ever leading to direct artistic collaboration. In terms of content and structure, the publication follows the dialog that Anni and Josef Albers conducted in their artistic work over five decades, and which bears witness to a shared and sensitive inspiration. (Publisher's text - reproduced with kind permission)
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