László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy, 1895 to 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. In 1923, he replaced Johannes Itten as the instructor of the foundation course at the Bauhaus. This effectively marked the end of the school’s expressionistic leanings and moved it closer towards its original aims as a school of design and industrial integration.The Bauhaus became known for the versatility of its artists, and Moholy-Nagy was no exception. Throughout his career, he became proficient and innovative in the fields of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, and industrial design. One of his main focuses was photography. He coined the term “the New Vision” for his belief that photography could create a whole new way of seeing the outside world that the human eye could not. His theory of art and teaching is summed up in the book The New Vision, from Material to Architecture. He experimented with the photographic process of exposing light sensitive paper with objects overlain on top of it, called photogram. While studying at the Bauhaus, Moholy’s teaching in diverse media — including painting, sculpture, photography, photomontage and metal — had a profound influence on a number of his students, including Marianne Brandt. He resigned from the Bauhaus early in 1928 and worked free-lance as a highly sought-after designer in Berlin. He designed stage sets for successful and controversial operatic and theatrical productions, designed exhibitions and books, created ad campaigns, wrote articles and made films. His studio employed artists and designers such as Istvan Seboek, Gyorgy Kepes and Andor Weininger. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, and, as a foreign citizen, he was no longer allowed to work, he operated for a time in the Netherlands before moving to London in 1935. In 1937, at the invitation of Walter Paepcke, the Chairman of the Container Corporation of America, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus. The philosophy of the school was basically unchanged from that of the original, and its headquarters was the Prairie Avenue mansion that architect Richard Morris Hunt designed for department store magnate Marshall Field. Unfortunately, the school lost the financial backing of its supporters after only a single academic year, and it closed in 1938. Moholy-Nagy was also the Art Advisor for the mail-order house of Spiegel in Chicago. Paepcke, however, continued his own support, and in 1939, Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design. In 1944, this became the Institute of Design. In 1949 the Institute of Design became a part of Illinois Institute of Technology and became the first institution in the United States to offer a PhD in design. Moholy-Nagy authored an account of his efforts to develop the curriculum of the School of Design in his book Vision in Motion. He died of leukemia in Chicago in 1946
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'AXL II' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1927 £6.99
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'Bauhaus Painting' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Behind Back of God, Between Heaven and Earth' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1925 £6.99
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'Bewegung' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1920 £6.99
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'Bexhill on Sea' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1936 £6.99
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'Composition A XXI, detail' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1925 £6.99
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'Construction AL6' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1933–34 £6.99
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'Construction VI' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1923 £6.99
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'Construction' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1945 £6.99
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'Decorating Work, Switzerland' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Der Sturm, Vol. 13, No. 1' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1923 £6.99
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'Dolls Taking a Sunbath, detail' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1926 £6.99
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'Eiffel Tower, detail' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1925 £6.99
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'Gal AB 1' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Hal 002' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'In the Sand' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Karte für Bauhaus-Ausstellung' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1923 £6.99
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'Kestnermappe - Komposition (one plate)' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Kirchenportal' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1920 £6.99
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'L & CH' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1936-39 £6.99
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'Lis, detail' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1922 £6.99
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'Lo' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Negative Postive Photogram Pair' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Photo Reporter in the North Arctic Sea' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1930 £6.99
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'Photogram of a Hand' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1926 £6.99
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'Photogram with Pin Wheel' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Photogram' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Photogram' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Photogram, detail' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Plate 6, from Konstruktionen – Kestnermappe 6' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Portrait of Ellen Frank' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Q1 Suprematistic' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1923 £6.99
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'Railway' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Rue Cannebière, Marseilles' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1929 £6.99
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'Rutschbahn, detail' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1923 £6.99
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'Sans Titre' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1938 £6.99
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'Sans Titre' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1939 £6.99
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'Segmentos de círculo' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1921 £6.99
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'Self Portrait, detail' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Self-portrait Photogram' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1925 £6.99
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'Self-Portrait, Photogram' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'SRho 1, detail,' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1936 £6.99
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'Untitled' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Untitled' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99
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'Untitled' by László Moholy-Nagy in 1900's £6.99