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David Zwirner NYC celebrates the Alberses & Klee
Opening 13th March, David Zwirner’s New York Gallery presents ‘Affinities: Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Paul Klee’, curated by Nicholas Fox Weber. On view at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in Chelsea, this exhibition presents the work of these three artists who overlapped at the Bauhaus during the 1920s and early 1930s and who greatly respected one another’s work. The exhibition features an extensive and varied selection of works by the Alberses from The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and notable works by Klee on loan from institutional and private collectors, as well as additional Klee works from the collection of Alain and Doris Klee. Additional support for the exhibition has been generously provided by the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.
‘Neither Paul Klee nor Anni nor Josef imitated one another, but they shared certain goals. Their art was a celebration—of color, of form, of the value of art that was not a personal revelation but was, rather, an ode to the universal.’ Nicholas Fox Weber, curator of Affinities: Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Paul Klee
Affinities: Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Paul Klee
March 13th – 19th April, 2025
537 West 20th Street, New York
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Christopher Farr are proud to produce textile artworks, limited editions and rugs from original designs of the Alberses, in association with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. From handwoven tapestries from Josef Albers’ Homage to the Square, the designs from his series of paintings that started in 1950, the seminal study of colour and geometric abstraction that demonstrated how colour interacts and influences one another. Also, hand knotted rugs from original designs of Anni Albers, who is considered one of the most influential textile artists of the 20th century, and one of the few women masters at the Bauhaus.
‘What made it exciting at the Bauhaus was that there was nothing to go by, no set direction of any kind.’ Anni Albers
‘I want to open the eyes’ Josef Albers on his time at the Black Mountain College
Image credits:
Hero image:
Anni Albers, Variations on a Theme, 1958 (detail), and portrait: Anni Albers, 1929–33 Photo by Josef Albers© 2021 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Artworks:
Josef Albers, Gitterbild (Grid Mounted), c. 1921-1922. Glass, wire, and wire screen mounted on wrought iron fencing. 12 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches (32.4 x 28.9 cm. Framed: 14 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches (37.5 x 34.3 cm)
Anni Albers, Red Meander, 1954 © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Courtesy The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and David Zwirner
Paul Klee, Garten stillleben (Garden still life), 1924
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. © Klee Family, Courtesy David Zwirner
Lifestyle images:
Installation by Hubert Zandberg, photographed by James McDonald