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László Moholy-Nagy
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Hungarian artist (1895–1946)
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László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian and American painter, photographer, sculptor, and designer. He worked in the genre of abstract art and was associated with the Bauhaus and the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he was employed at the IIT Institute of Design. He was also a member of the American Abstract Artists.
Born in Bácsborsód in 1895, he resided in Mol, Budapest, Szeged, and Vienna. He participated in World War I and was educated at Eötvös Loránd University. He spoke English, German, and Hungarian. His students included Florence Henri and Franciska Clausen. He was married to Lucia Moholy and Sibyl Moholy-Nagy.
Moholy-Nagy died of leukemia, a natural cause, in Chicago in 1946. He is buried at Graceland Cemetery. His work is described by the source UbuWeb.
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Film & TV
Bácsborsód
László Moholy-Nagy 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.
Known for
- The New Bauhaus — Himself (archive footage)2019
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Key facts
- Born
- László Weisz , ( 1895-07-20 ) July 20, 1895, Bácsborsód , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- November 24, 1946 (1946-11-24) (aged 51), Chicago, Illinois, US
- Resting place
- Graceland Cemetery
- Education
- University of Budapest
- Known for
- Painting, photography, sculpture, film
- Notable work
- Light Prop for an Electric Stage (1928–1930, also called Light-Space Modulator posthumously)
- Style
- Constructivism
- Movement
- Bauhaus
- Spouses
- Lucia Schulz ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1921 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1929 ) Sibylle Pietzsch ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1932 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- László
- Family name
- Nagy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bácsborsód
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Spouse
- Lucia Moholy
- Educated at
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Employer
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Genre
- abstract art
- Movement
- Constructivism
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- László Moholy-Nagy by Hugo Erfurth, c. 1930 .jpg
- Residence
- Chicago
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- Commons category
- László Moholy-Nagy
- cause of death
- leukemia
- date of birth
- 1895-07-20
- date of death
- 1946-11-24
- Commons Creator page
- László Moholy-Nagy
- place of burial
- Graceland Cemetery
- student
- Franciska Clausen
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- László Moholy-Nagy
- member of
- American Abstract Artists
- has works in the collection
- Sprengel Museum
- P8168
- Mauriac
- name in native language
- Moholy-Nagy László
- birth name
- Weisz László
- pseudonym
- Laszlo
- described at URL
- arch-pavouk.cz/index.php/architekti/1187-moholy-nagy-laszlo
- affiliation
- IIT Institute of Design
- archives at
- Bauhaus-Archiv
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to László Moholy-Nagy, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
From material to architecture
Q IV
Kestner folder, six constructions
Untitled
Berlin, “Piscator-Bühne,” “Kaufmann von Berlin”
Light equivalent of an electric stage. Presentation of the overall model
The broken marriage
Kestner folder, six constructions
Kestner folder, six constructions
EM 3 (Telefonbild)
Kestner folder, six constructions
The World Building
Mord auf den Schienen
Composition (glass architecture)
Light-room modulator, reconstruction, made by the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum
A score sketch for a mechanical eccentric. With explanation board
Light equivalent of a mechanical stage. Presentation of a game of movement on the first sector. Drawing
Kestner folder, six constructions
Bridging
The big wheel. The big feeling machine
Letter from Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Georg Muche and László Moholy-Nagy from District of Friends of the Bauhaus & lt; Dessau & gt; to Gerhart Hauptmann
Frame Laszlo and Lucia
Frame
Frame
Frame
Frame Self portrait
Frame and collage Self portrait
Leda and the swan
My name is hare
Gelosia
Frame
Frames
Behind God
The wedding destroyed
Assassination on tracks
~16 min read
Encyclopedic overview
László Moholy-Nagy (/məˌhoʊliˈnɒdʒ/; 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 Institute of Design in Chicago, which survives today as part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, and 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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