The young Anni Fleichsmann in 1922 received a Christmas card illustrated with a reproduction of Giotto’s Flight into Egypt. It was from Josef Albers, eleven years her senior. Thus began the most famous romance of Bauhaus lore, and a twin journey that

Though it was hard for them to escape the long shadows of the men who were their husbands and often also mentors, there were not a few women artists at the Bauhaus who had voices of their own. The most outstanding among them – both because of the fie