SIX PRAYERS by Anni Albers
art textiles created 1966-7 for the Jewish Museum. NYC
Referencing Torah scrolls, she said: ‘I used
the threads themselves as a sculptor or painter uses his medium to produce a
scriptural effect which would bring to mind sacred texts.’
Of Jewish heritage, Albers considered herself Jewish ‘only in the Hitler
sense’, but wrote: ‘We are alone and responsible for our actions. Our solitariness
takes on religious character: this is a
matter of my conscience and me’. A key teacher in the Bauhaus art school, she
left Germany with her husband in 1933 and taught at Black Mountain College.
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