Moholy-Nagy, László
(American, b. Hungary, 1895-1946)
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Painter, photograph and art critic. He first took up law, but later he learnt painting. His works were first exhibited in the National Salon in 1918. After 1919 he lived in Vienna, then in Berlin where he joined groups of progressive ideas ("Ma" and "Gestaltung-Group"). Between 1923-28 he was a teacher of Bauhaus in Weimar, later in Dessau and then became an assistant to W. Gropius. He lived in Berlin but he was obliged to emigrate to England when Hitler came to power. He lived in England between 1935-37 and moved to the USA where he founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago.
In his essays he focused on abstract art and problems of applied art. His works (pictures, drawings, statuettes, and photographs etc.) were mostly compositions in the style of constructivism.
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Web Links
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