Anni Albers

Anni Albers began her artistic career at the weaving workshop of the Bauhaus, the German art and design school founded by Walter Gropius, after she was turned away from the other Bauhaus workshops (despite its claims of gender equality, women at the Bauhaus were only accepted into the weaving workshop). Although she claimed that weaving was not her greatest love (at first, she thought it was "too sissy"), she became very well known for her weavings, teaching at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College in North Carolina and, in 1949, having the first solo weaving show at the Museum of Modern Art. She was the author of two books, On Designing (1959) and On Weaving (1965). In the 1970s, Albers turned to printmaking and lithography for more than a decade. At age 94, she was the last of the original Bauhaus instructors to pass away.