Exhibition poster created for a retrospective in 1999. Commemorating the centenary of Anni Albers’ birth in 1999, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice presented "Anni Albers", the first retrospective of Albers’s work held in Europe. The show traveled to the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop/Germany (June 13 – August 29, 1999), the musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (September 20 – December 31, 1999), and to theJewish Museum, New York (February 27 – June 4, 2000).

Anni Albers (Berlin 1899 - New Haven 1994) is considered by many the foremost textile designer of our century. One of the central figures of the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus, she had an enormous effect worldwide on the design of yard materials and on the creation of singular weavings and wall hangings. Anni Albers studied art in Berlin, Hamburg and at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, receiving her Bauhaus diploma in 1930. In 1925 she married Josef Albers, with whom she emigrated to America in 1933. She taught at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, from 1933 to 1949, and in 1937 took US citizenship. From the 1960s, Anni Albers, by then living in New Haven, Connecticut, received numerous awards and honors for her achievements in the arts.