László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), painter, photographer, Bauhaus teacher, and founder of the New Bauhaus and the School of Design in Chicago, is one of the most important artist personalities of the modern age. As one of the first artists to work in multiple media—practising painting, sculpture, photography, film, and design as equally valid art genres—he set standards that are still relevant today.

Appointed to the Bauhaus in Weimar by Walter Gropius in 1923, Moholy-Nagy also followed him to Dessau before leaving Nazi Germany in 1933. He eventually found a second home in Chicago in 1937. Both as a teacher and an artist, he pursued his revolutionary vision of uniting art and life to permit artistic activities to flow into everyday life.

Moholy-Nagy made an important contribution, particularly in the recognition of photography, which as a new medium had hitherto not been regarded as art. This volume provides excellent insight into the life and work of the avant-garde artist.