Art with an Expert: Fritz Horstman discusses Anni Albers
Event Details
WHEN/WHERE: 5 p.m. Capitol Room, Smith Building, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, 200 E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Austin, TX 78712
Take a deep dive into art, art histories, and more with these hour-long talks presented by distinguished art professionals. Hear Fritz Horstman, Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and curator of Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper, discuss the life of this canonical weaver, designer, printmaker, and author. Horstman’s lecture will highlight Albers’s transition from weaving to printmaking and the ideas that remained remarkably consistent throughout her long career.
This event is part of our Second Saturday scheduled programming.
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ABOUT FRITZ HORSTMAN
Fritz Horstman is a curator, educator, and artist based in Bethany, Connecticut, where he is Education Director at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He has curated exhibitions in Italy, Ireland, Croatia, Norway, and the United States, including Anni Albers: In Thread and On Paper, which originated at the New Britain Museum of American Art in New Britain, CT, before moving to the Syracuse University Art Museum, and now the Blanton Museum of Art. He has lectured and given workshops at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Yale University, Harvard University, l’École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, Lebanese American University in Beirut, The Royal Academy of Art in London, and many other institutions. He is the author of Interacting with Color: A Practical Guide to Josef Albers’s Color Experiments, which will be published by Yale University Press in spring 2024.
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