Thursday, 31 January 2019

for HMD 2019

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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