Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art owns a large collection - 56 works - of fabric samples, designs and a tapestry dating from the Bauhaus period to the 1960s.
Read MoreIn 1990 the curator of the exhibition “Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers” at the Moma, Matilda McQuaid wrote:
“The textile designs of Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers are creative experiments in material, structure and color. Rejecting a nineteenth-century tradition of cloth-making that emphasized pictorial imagery, Stölzl and Albers altered the course of twentieth-century weaving by introducing new fibers and finishes and by revealing the fundamental woven structure, or the warp and weft, of the cloth. ...." . Gunta Stölzl at the Museum Of Modern Art Collection1 / 51
Tapestry "Black/White"
Half-gobelin technique. Flatweave, partly with reversed harness
Warp: mercerized cotton
Weft: wool, rayon and metal thread
Bauhaus Weimar, 1924
183x112 cm
A mirror woven replica (182 x 119 cm) was carried out by Helene Boerner in 1925,
and is at the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar