It’s not as if the work of Josef Albers and Anni Albers was ever absent from our cultural memory, but right now, it is particularly present. Earlier this week, the Spanish fashion house Loewe presented its Albers–inspired Autumn/Winter 2025 collection at Paris Fashion Week. And this spring, two exhibitions in New York will showcase the German-American artists’ creations.
Made in collaboration with the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, the Loewe pieces include loom-woven coats that nod to the thoughtful yet energetic patterns of Anni’s work and purses that translate to leather the color explorations of Josef’s “Homage to a Square” series. “When you look at the Alberses’ work, you have this keen sense of people experimenting and not knowing on all occasions what the results will be,” Albers foundation director Nicolas Fox Weber says in a video on Loewe’s website. “The Alberses’ work for all of us can represent an approach to extreme discipline and at the same time a powerful sense of poetry.”
That disciplined lyricism will be on full view in a show of the Alberses’ work, along with that of their Bauhaus contemporary Paul Klee, that opens at David Zwirner New York this week. Titled “Affinities,” it will include pieces both from their time at the Bauhaus and from later in their careers. In April, “Woven Histories,” at MoMA, will present another opportunity for Albers lovers to observe Anni’s three-dimensional creations. In our frenzied digital age, the meditative quality of their work is particularly resonant and most welcome.
