Article: Bauhaus' Brave Albers Was a Tedious Weaver.(Arts&Entertainment)

Byline: Hilton Kramer

Anni Albers (1899-1994), whose work is currently the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Jewish Museum--and is also represented on a smaller scale in the Making Choices exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art--is, so to speak, the other Albers. She was 11 years younger than Josef Albers when they were married in 1925. He was already established at the Bauhaus in Weimar as a junior master. She had been enrolled as a Bauhaus student since 1922, mainly in the school's weaving workshop--one of the courses reserved for women.

Under the directorship of its founder, Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus did not offer training in architecture ...

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