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Six Prayers
Annelise Albers
1965–1966
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Anni Albers is recognized as one of the most influential textile designers of the twentieth century. Born Annelise Fleischmann in Berlin, she attended the renowned Bauhaus school, where she began to experiment with weaving and fiber art, receiving her diploma in 1929. After the Nazis shut down the Bauhaus, Albers and her husband, artist Josef Albers, moved to North Carolina. During their time there, Albers continued designing and weaving with nontraditional materials. In 1949, she became the first textile artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She later developed an interest in printmaking, her bold designs embodying the abstract, geometric aesthetic characteristic of the midcentury modern movement.
Therefore, it is incumbent upon us to praise the One who created us in His honor, for the great goodness that He bestowed upon us. For from this day forward we will not fear the multitudes of people…
These silver earrings of solid lunates have fixed attachments and attachments of hollow granule clusters. They are from a tomb at Tel Ira in the northern Negev.
This exquisite synagogue, with Rococo gold wooden detailing, was originally located in in the village of Conegliano Veneto. Built in the sixteenth century, it was subsequently reassembled by the…