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Turned to weaving at the Bauhaus after facing restrictions in painting and other disciplines because of her gender, and became the school's leading textile artist, developing techniques that combined visual design with practical qualities like sound absorption. She fled Nazi Germany with her husband Josef Albers in 1933 for Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and in 1949 became the first textile designer to have a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.