About the Artist Lászlo Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) ranks among the most versatile and influential artists of classical modernism. His work joins painting, photography, typography, film and stage design into a thoroughly experimental, constructivist language. With his "New Vision" he revolutionised photography through cameraless photograms, unusual vantage points and radical framing; with the Light-Space Modulator he also created one of the earliest electrically driven kinetic sculptures. As a master at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, he led the metal workshop and the famous preliminary course from 1923, decisively shaping the school's interdisciplinary thinking. After emigrating, he founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937, carrying the Bauhaus idea to America. His work is held today in the most important museums worldwide.