Decked out in red factory overalls, László Moholy-Nagy cut a striking figure of an avant-garde utopian during his time teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1923 to 1928. László Moholy-Nagy, “A II ...

“If you ask where is the Picasso of England or the Ezra Pound of France,” the art critic Robert Hughes once lamented, “there is only one probable answer: still in the trenches.” The mad slaughter of ...

The László Moholy-Nagy Collection in the National Museum of American History’s Photographic History Collection is comprised of seven photograms, two photomontages, and one gelatin silver print.

László Moholy-Nagy discovered his leukemia in 1945. That same year he dedicated two works, Nuclear I, CH and Nuclear II, to atom fission. These paintings, among others uniquely reunited for Future ...

The Interior Design department is hosting a screening of THE NEW BAUHAUS: The Life & Legacy of Moholy-Nagy on Tue. Jan. 23rd at 6:00pm in Memorial Hall. This 90 minute documentary explores the life ...

Hattula Moholy-Nagy didn’t really get to know her father–Hungarian-born designer Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, the man who brought the Bauhaus movement to Chicago–until she was almost 40. He’d died in 1946, ...

38.4 x 28.3 cm. (15.1 x 11.1 in.) The Art of Light: László Moholy-Nagy (Madrid, 2011), p. 66 Carol S. Eliel Witkovsky and Karole P. B. Vail, Future Present: Moholy-Nagy (The Art Institute of Chicago, ...

One day in 1920 a young Hungarian art student got mad at his work. He was sketching a routine, academic still life; it seemed to him “there were too many shapes pressed into a chaotic arrangement.” So ...

In Chicago this week visitors at the New Bauhaus found an exhibition of bewildering nameless objects: gadgets of wire, wood, sandpaper, linoleum, felt, rubber and ordinary paper cut in odd ...