Anni Albers, Wall hanging in black, white and orange (We 791), 1926/1964 / Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Photo: Gunter Lepkowski / © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

Anni Albers, Wall hanging in black, white and orange (We 791), 1926/1964 Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Photo: Gunter Lepkowski © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn

Anni Albers, Wall hanging, 1926/1964

Among the inspirations for this wall hanging by Anni Albers (1926) were the art of Paul Klee and Josef Albers’s glass images – but it reaches a stylistically completely different solution. On closer examination, the strict pattern proves to be an alternating rhythm of blocks and strips. Albers’s triple-woven tapestry is among the workshop pieces in which synthetic fibres such as artificial silk were experimented with for the first time.

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