Women and the Bauhaus: Weaving/Anni Albers




MoMA Talks: Panel Discussions and Symposia show

Summary: November 18, 2009, 6:30 P.M. The Museum presents a series, made possible by the Modern Women’s Fund, of four discussions on female members of the Bauhaus whose important contributions have often been overlooked in earlier histories of the school. Tonight’s program, the first in the series, features Nicholas Fox Weber, Executive Director, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, as he spotlights Anni Albers’s works and experience at the Bauhaus, including her pivotal role in the weaving workshop. Adrian Sudhalter, Assistant Research Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, introduces the program. Following the program, Mr. Weber signs copies of his new book The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism (Knopf).