Born into an assimilated Jewish family in Berlin, furniture manufacturer, weaver, fabric designer, and artist Anni Albers (1899-1994) studied weaving before immigrating to America with her husband, Josef, a painter and instructor at the Bauhaus School Art School in Weimar Germany.

As a weaving student at the Bauhaus and once a believer that ” weaving was sissy… just three threads”, to Anni’s surprise she would also soon realize the craft could be compared to architecture, an act of construction relying on hundreds of individual elements. Working at her loom hour after hour, Albers also found an inner peace she believed other artists often lacked.