Anni and Josef Albers: the married misfits of the Bauhaus
Anni and Josef Albers met at the Bauhaus and both became hugely influential designers. As we continue our Bauhaus 100 series celebrating the school's centenary, we explore the couple's works and legacy.
The Bauhaus had its fair share of couples, not to mention love triangles. But the most enduring was no doubt Anni and Josef Albers, she a middle-class Berliner of Jewish descent, and he the son of a painter-decorator from the town of Bottrop, Westphalia.
Anni, born Annelise Fleischman, hailed from upmarket Charlottenburg. Her mother's family included the founders of the Ullstein publishing empire and her father was the owner of Trunck & Co, a successful furniture business. Early attempts to study painting met an abrupt end when Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka, upon seeing her works, simply asked "why do you paint"" As the story for many Bauhausians goes, Anni chanced upon a manifesto while studying at Hamburg's School of Applied Arts, and aged 23 headed to Weimar to apply.
Anni and Josef met at the Bauhaus
On her arrival in 1922, Anni would meet Josef: 11 years her senior and at that point recently appointed junior master. Anni's plans at the Bauhaus went the way of many female students, pushed away from skills such as woodwork, sculpture and painting, which Walter Gropius termed "heavier crafts", and towards its most "feminine" discipline: weaving.
Study for an unexecuted wallhanging, which forms part of the Tate Modern's A...
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