In 1965 Anni Albers was commissioned by The Jewish Museum to make an art work honoring the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi concentration camps. Six Prayers creates the impression of a sea of humanity—an infinity of human lives. One feels the connections and connectedness, the force of life itself. The six panels seem to pulse with blood, to breathe, even to evoke sound. The tone is suitably somber and elegiac, befitting the tragedy that this interlacing of thread and movement of abstract forms so effectively commemorates.
			Anni Albers Six Prayers, 1965-66 Cotton, linen, bast, and silver threads Six panels, 186 x 50 cm (73 1/16 x 19 11/16 in.) each The Jewish Museum, New York. Gift of Albert A. List Family, JM 149-71.1-6 © 2000 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut/Artists Rights Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Photo: Tim Nighswander