Anni Albers (American, born Germany, 1899–1994)
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Development in Rose II
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Anni Albers (American, born Germany, 1899–1994)
New Haven, Connecticut, United States1952
Development in Rose II
Anni Albers (American, born Germany, 1899–1994) New Haven, Connecticut, United States →Modernismbauhaustextileweaving
Date
1952
Medium
Linen, warp-stripe, weft-bonded plain weave with open work and self-patterned by areas of discontinuous wefts, discontinuous single interlocking wefts, and gauze weave backed in areas with plain weave and/or main warp and ground weft floats
Dimensions
62 × 45.2 cm (24 3/8 × 17 3/4 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Purchased with funds provided by Laurance H. Armour, Jr. and Margot B. Armour Family Foundation
Anni Albers was particularly interested in how a textile was visually defined by its technique and woven structure. In Development in Rose II, she incorporated discontinuous wefts- horizontal threads that do not travel across the entire width of the textile-punctuating the otherwise strict geometry of the piece. Knotting them in place, she added visual depth and texture.
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