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Anni Albers

1899 - 1994

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Anni Albers (born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann; June 12, 1899 – May 9, 1994) was a German-Jewish visual artist and printmaker. A leading textile artist of the 20th century, she is credited with blurring the lines between traditional craft and art. Born in Berlin in 1899, Fleischmann initially studied under impressionist painter Martin Brandenburg from 1916 to 1919 and briefly attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Hamburg in 1919. She later enrolled at the Bauhaus, an avant-garde art and architecture school founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1922, where she began exploring weaving after facing restrictions in other disciplines due to gender biases at the institution. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Anni Albers is the 1,093rd most popular painter (up from 1,396th in 2019), the 3,026th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,713th in 2019) and the 100th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anni Albers ranks 1,093 out of 2,023. Before her are Jan Mandijn, Jean-Louis Forain, Bartolomeo Veneto, Gustaaf Wappers, Nasreddine Dinet, and Félix Bracquemond. After her are Rufino Tamayo, Eugène Jansson, Iaia, Josef Kriehuber, Władysław Podkowiński, and María Blanchard.

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Among people born in 1899, Anni Albers ranks 137. Before her are Johan Grøttumsbråten, Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Justas Paleckis, Lonnie Johnson, Aleksander Zawadzki, and Carlos Chávez. After her are Rufino Tamayo, Susannah Mushatt Jones, Jeralean Talley, S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, Qu Qiubai, and Alexander Tcherepnin. Among people deceased in 1994, Anni Albers ranks 150. Before her are Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Alex Wilson, Derek Jarman, Maria Carta, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Elga Andersen. After her are Frederick Copleston, Stephen Cole Kleene, Ales Adamovich, Roy J. Plunkett, Grigol Abashidze, and Leonid Leonov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anni Albers ranks 3,028 out of 7,253. Before her are August Heissmeyer (1897), Otto Hölder (1859), Wilhelm Batz (1916), Bruno S. (1932), Martin Winterkorn (1947), and Elisa Radziwiłł (1803). After her are Uli Edel (1947), Thilo Sarrazin (1945), Samson Raphael Hirsch (1808), Jacob, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1407), Gerhard Schröder (1910), and Klaus Fichtel (1944).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Anni Albers ranks 100. Before her are Emanuel Leutze (1816), Christoph Amberger (1505), Hans Thoma (1839), Friedrich Wilhelm Schadow (1789), Franz Pforr (1788), and Hans von Kulmbach (1476). After her are Johann Baptist Zimmermann (1680), Carlos Schwabe (1866), Albrecht Adam (1786), Wilhelm von Kaulbach (1805), Fritz Bleyl (1880), and A. R. Penck (1939).

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