László Moholy-Nagy
- Introduction
- László Moholy-Nagy (; Hungarian: [ˈlaːsloː ˈmoholiˌnɒɟ.]; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. The art critic Peter Schjeldahl called him "relentlessly experimental" because of his pioneering work in painting, drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, theater, and writing.He also worked collaboratively with other artists, including his first wife Lucia Moholy, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Herbert Bayer. His largest accomplishment may be the School of Design in Chicago, which survives today as part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, which art historian Elizabeth Siegel called "his overarching work of art". He also wrote books and articles advocating a utopian type of high modernism.
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- Introduction
- Moholy-Nagy became part of the Russian Avant-Garde in Odessa as a painter in 1918. From 1919 to 1920 he lived in Vienna, where he painted, wrote and associated with the Dadaists. He then moved to Berlin in 1920 where he met Lucia Moholy, whom he married the following year. In 1922, he and Lucia began working with photograms. From 1923 to 1928 he was the founder and director of the photographic department of the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and he moved to Dessau in 1925, where he worked on films and photomontages. In 1937, Moholy-Nagy emigrated to the United States, and in the same year founded and directed the New Bauhaus School in Chicago. In 1939 it closed, and he founded the School of Design which was renamed the Institute of Design in 1944, and became part of the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949. Moholy-Nagy became a naturalized American citizen in April of 1946, and dies in November of that year, of Leukemia.
- Nationalities
- American, Hungarian
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Author, Educator, Designer, Teacher, Collagist, Poet, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor, Theorist
- Names
- László Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ladislaus Moholy-Nagy, Lʹaszlʹo Moholy-Nagy, Ladislaus Moholy- Nagy, László Nagy, Laszlo Nagy, László Moholy- Nagy, Lʹaszlʹo Moholy- Nagy, László Weisz, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, Moholy-Nagy
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Exhibitions
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Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented
Dec 13, 2020–Apr 10, 2021
MoMA
Member Last Look, Apr 11 -
510: A Modern Media World
Ongoing
MoMA
Collection gallery
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513: Design for Modern Life
Through summer 2021
MoMA
Collection gallery
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Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection,
1909–1949 Dec 13, 2014–Apr 19, 2015
MoMA
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A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio
Feb 8–Nov 2, 2014
MoMA
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László Moholy-Nagy has
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László Moholy-Nagy Jolan Simon (1919-20)
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László Moholy-Nagy Nickel Construction 1921
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László Moholy-Nagy Yellow Circle 1921
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László Moholy-Nagy Ma: Aktivista Folyóirat, vol. VII, no. 5-6 1922
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László Moholy-Nagy Composition from Masters' Portfolio of the Staatliches Bauhaus (Meistermappe des Staatlichen Bauhauses) (1923)
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled c. 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy EM 2 (Telephone Picture) 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy EM 3 (Telephone Picture) 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Mise-en-scène for the play Die Menschen (1923)
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László Moholy-Nagy Composition (ca. 1923)
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László Moholy-Nagy Composition (ca. 1923)
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László Moholy-Nagy Konstruktionen. Kestenermappe 6 (Constructions. Kestner Portfolio 6) 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled from Konstruktionen. Kestnermappe 6 (Constructions. Kestner Portfolio 6) 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled from Konstruktionen. Kestnermappe 6 (Constructions. Kestner Portfolio 6) 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled from Konstruktionen. Kestnermappe 6 (Constructions. Kestner Portfolio 6) 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled from Konstruktionen. Kestnermappe 6 (Constructions. Kestner Portfolio 6) 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled from Konstruktionen. Kestnermappe 6 (Constructions. Kestner Portfolio 6) 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled from Konstruktionen. Kestnermappe 6 (Constructions. Kestner Portfolio 6) 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Q 1 Suprematistic 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled (Composition) (ohne Titel (Komposition)) from the periodical Der Sturm, vol. 13, no. 1 (Jan 1923) 1923
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Herbert Bayer, László Moholy-Nagy Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919-1923 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Verkaufsbedingungen für die ausgestellten Werkstättenerzeugnisse und Bilder der Ausstellung 1923 d. Staatl. Bauhauses Weimar 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar 1919-1923 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Bauhaus Ausstellung Weimar 1923 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy EM 1 (Telephone Picture) 1923
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László Moholy-Nagy Dream of Boarding School Girls 1924
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László Moholy-Nagy Composition No. 2 (1923-24)
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László Moholy-Nagy Composition No. 4 (1923-24)
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László Moholy-Nagy Bauhausbücher 5, Piet Mondrian: Neue Gestaltung 1924
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László Moholy-Nagy Bauhausverlag GmbH letterhead (Letter to J.J.P. Oud from Moholy-Nagy) 1924
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled 1923-25
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy The Law of Series 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy Love Your Neighbor; Murder on the Railway 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy Geometry and Texture of Landscape 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy Untitled 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy Z II 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy Stationery invoice for Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar Rechnung (State Bauhaus Weimar) c. 1924
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László Moholy-Nagy Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar 1919-25
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László Moholy-Nagy Bauhausbücher 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy Bauhausbücher 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy Untitled 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy Stationery invoice for Das Bauhaus in Dessau (For sale of a doll by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher) 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy Ascona 1926
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László Moholy-Nagy Siesta 1926
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László Moholy-Nagy Composition 1926
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László Moholy-Nagy Structure of the World c. 1925
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László Moholy-Nagy Handwritten postcard to K. H. Haupt 1926
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