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Early Fall 2001 Exhibitions

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Anni Albers
Works on Paper from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

The German-born artist Anni Albers (1899-1994) studied art at the Bauhaus, where she met her future husband Josef Albers (1888-1976). In 1933, the year the Nazis closed the Bauhaus, the couple came to the United States to teach at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. When Josef Albers accepted an appointment at Yale University, they moved to Connecticut.

Anni Albers dedicated her early years in Connecticut to experimenting with weavings and textile design. In 1963 she accompanied her husband to a Tamarind workshop and worked for the first time with print media. By 1970 she had given away her loom and had begun to concentrate entirely on graphic art.
	Red Meander, 1969; screenprint; Collection of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

The DAC exhibition coincided with the publication of Anni Albers, Selected Writings on Design, by Wesleyan University Press. The book has a foreword by Nicholas Fox Weber, director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, and is edited by Brenda Danilowitz, curator of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

Tuesday 4 September - Sunday 4 November 2001

Brenda Danilowitz, curator of the Albers Foundation, gave an Art à la Mode Gallery Talk at 5:00 p.m. on Friday 7 September 2001.

David Schorr: Illustrations to Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal

This exhibition presented seventeen intaglio prints created by David Schorr, Professor of Art at Wesleyan, to illustrate a new translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil) by Norman R. Shapiro, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Wesleyan. Employing a mixture of intaglio techniques including etching, engraving, mezzotint, aquatint, drypoint, and Dremel, the artist printed these works at Wesleyan in editions of 25. The folio-size letterpress version of the poems, recently acquired by Special Collections & Archives at Olin Library, was shown.

Tuesday 4 September - Friday 12 October 2001

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Early Fall 2001 Exhibitions

Anni Albers Works on Paper from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

David Schorr: Illustrations to Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal

Anni Albers
Works on Paper from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation