Anni Albers

1899 Born in Berlin, Germany

1916–19 Studies art under Martin Brandenburg

1920 Studies at Kunstgewerbeschule School of Applied Art, Hamburg, Germany

1922–30 Studies at Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany under Georg Muche, Johannes Itten, Gunta Stölzl, and Paul Klee; receiving diploma in 1930

1923 Participates in the first Bauhaus exhibition, decorating Haus am Horn with textiles

1925 Marries Josef Albers; Bauhaus relocates to Dessau, Germany

1930–33 Part-time instructor, Bauhaus weaving workshop

1933 Emigrates to United States of America

1933–49 Assistant Professor of Art, Black Mountain College, Black Mountain, North Carolina

1934 Travels to Havana, Cuba, where Josef Albers delivers lecture

1935 Travels to Mexico, the first of fourteen trips to the nation, and begins collecting Pre-Colombian art

1937 Included in exhibition Bauhaus 1919–1928, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York

1939 Becomes citizen of the United States of America

1940 Begins making and exhibiting framed weavings on linen base

1946 Included in travelling exhibition Modern handmade jewellery originating at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City

1949 Travelling exhibition, Anni Albers: textiles, originating at Museum of Modern Art, New York City

1950 Moves to New Haven, Connecticut; undertakes commission to furnish the Harvard Law School building designed by Walter Gropius

1953 Solo exhibition, at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

1954 Solo exhibition, at Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii

1957 Receives commission to furnish Temple Emanu-El, New York City, notably her first commission to furnish a synagogue

1959 Travelling exhibition, Anni Albers pictorial weavings, originating at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; publishes On designing (Pellango Press: New Haven), which collates her published articles on textile design

1960 Solo exhibition, at Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas

1961 Receives American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in the field of craftsmanship

1963 Begins printmaking at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles

1964 Receives fellowship to Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, California; completes portfolio of seven lithographs entitled Line Involvements

1965 Writes On weaving (Wesleyan University Press: Middletown), which wins the Decorative Arts Book Award Citation

1966 Receives commission for tapestry for the Jewish Museum, New York City

1970 Writes Pre-Columbian Mexican miniatures: the Josef and Anni Albers collection, (Praeger: New York); completes editions of TR I, TR II and TR III at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

1971 Included in exhibition, Technics and creativity: Gemini G.E.L., at Museum of Modern Art, New York City

1972 Receives honorary doctorate in Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

1975 Travelling exhibition, at the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, West Germany and Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin

1976 Completes Triangulated intaglio series of etchings with aquatint at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York; receives honorary doctorate Philadelphia College of Art

1977 Retrospective exhibition, Anni Albers: drawings and prints, at Brooklyn Museum, New York City; included in exhibition, Art off the picture press, at Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hampstead, New York

1978 Completes Mountainous I-VI series of embossings and Second movement I-VI series of etchings with aquatint at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York

1979 Receives honorary doctorate from University of Hartford, Connecticut

1981 Receives American Craft Council Gold Medal

1984 Included in exhibition, Prints from Tyler Graphics, at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1985 Travelling retrospective exhibition, The woven and graphic art of Anni Albers, at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

1989 Exhibition, Josef and Anni Albers, at Villa Stuck Museum, Munich, Germany

1990 Exhibition, Gunta Stolzl, Anni Albers, at Museum of Modern Art, New York City; honorary doctorate from the Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

1994 Anni Albers died in Orange, Connecticut

Barbara Delano © Tyler Graphics Ltd., revised Kate Buckingham, 2006
This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.