About this episode

Lucas Zwirner interviews Nicholas Fox Weber about his biography on Anni Albers.

In this bonus live episode, Lucas Zwirner returns to the mic for an interview with Nicholas Fox Weber, the director of the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, to celebrate Weber’s new biography, titled Anni Albers: A Life. Over the course of the exchange, Weber opens up about the writing process behind this major new biography and shares some rare anecdotes from a lifetime spent working closely with the Alberses. Anni Albers: A Life is out now from Yale University Press. Learn more about the book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269376/anni-albers/

People in this episode

Host: Lucas Zwirner

Guest: Nicholas Fox Weber

Topics covered

• biography
• Anni Albers
• art history
• interview
• writing process
• Josef Albers
• personal anecdotes

Keywords

• Anni Albers
• Nicholas Fox Weber
• biography
• art
• Josef Albers
• interview
• Yale University Press
• writing process
• anecdotes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Yale University Press

Books & works: Anni Albers: A Life

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