Anni Albers

Anni Albers











Anni Albers was a German-American textile artist and printmaker, the best known textile artist of the 20th century. Albers worked primarily in textiles and, late in life, as a printmaker. She produced numerous designs in ink washes for her textiles, and occasionally experimented with jewellery. Her woven works include many wall hangings, curtains and bedspreads, mounted "pictorial" images, and mass-produced yard material. Her weavings are often constructed of both traditional and industrial materials, not hesitating to combine jute, paper, and cellophane, for instance, to startlingly sublime effect.

Albers unique textiles work is influenced by properties of light reflection, sound absorption, durability, and minimized wrinkling and warping tendencies. Her later printmaking etchings and lithographs in the 70s comprised of geometrical prints with triangular articulations loosely reminiscent of creased origami patterns on paper. The geometric shapes and proportion of colour within her work are aesthetically exciting, especially the details within the weaves themselves as well as the paper designs.

I will take inspiration from repeated use of shapes which create geometric patterns. I will try and create these shapes and pattern with folds and creases.