Art and lifeThe 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)