Anni Albers (Berlin, Germany, 1899 – Orange, Connecticut, 1994) was an artist, textile designer, printmaker, and educator, and remains one of the most influential textile artists of the twentieth century.

Albers studied painting privately with the German Impressionist Martin Brandenburg from 1916 to 1919 before enrolling at the Bauhaus in 1922, where the school assigned her, as it did most women, to the Weaving Workshop. There she met her future husband, Josef Albers, whom she married in 1925; she completed her diploma in 1930 and went on to lead the workshop. In 1933, Anni and Josef Albers immigrated to the United States and founded the art department at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where Anni Albers built a curriculum that integrated weaving with industrial design.