Artist: Laszlo Moholy-nagy (1895 - 1946)
Nationality: Hungarian
Movement: Constructivism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
After studying law in Budapest, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy took interest in photography and painting after World War I. He blended the two medias while associating with the Dadaists and Constructivists while in Vienna and Berlin. He developed images that he called “photograms,” non-objective works made from a subject without a camera. Moholy-Nagy joined the Bauhaus under Gropius in 1925, and provided the building blocks for the New Photographer’s movement.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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J. Paul Getty Museum -
Cover Design
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Photogram
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Gutter
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Up with the United Front
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Photogram Number 1 - The Mirror
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Behind Back of God / Between Heaven and Earth
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Dolls
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Olly and Dolly Sisters
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - Untitled 1939 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - Untitled (Positive) c. 1922-1924 gelatin silver print National Gallery of Art German
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy - Eiffel Tower, Paris 1925 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstätten Typographie, Einband, Unschlag, L. Moholy-Nagy, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1925, Printed material
Museum of Fine Arts -
László Moholy-Nagy, American (born in Hungary), 1895-1946 Untitled (Shipboard View) about 1925 Photograph, gelatin silver
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Composition, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1938, Oil and incisions on rhodoid
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , Gouache and collage on paper, laid down
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1925, Gelatin-silver print
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Marseilles, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1929, Gelatin silver print
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1924, Linoleum cut on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1921, Linoleum cut on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1924, Linoleum cut on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1924, Linoleum cut on cover stock
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1924, Linoleum cut on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1922, Linoleum cut on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1921, Linoleum cut on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1923, Linoleum cut on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1922, Linoleum cut on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1921, Linoleum cut on orange cover stock
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1922, Linoleum cut on orange cover stock
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1922, Linoleum cut on green cover stock
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1924, Wood engraving on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1923, Linoleum cut on green cover stock
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1924, Wood engraving on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1924, Wood engraving on wove paper
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Untitled, László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , circa 1924, Wood engraving on wove paper
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L·szlÛ Moholy-Nagy Composition linoleum cut circa 1923
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Clemens Röseler, ca. 1928 Lux Feininger (American, born Germany, born 1910)Gelatin silver print; 11.3 x
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm 12 no. 4 (1921) - Der Sturm 14 no. 12 (1923), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1921-1923, Printed material with thirty-four linoleum cuts and eighteen woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper
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Der Sturm (1924) - Der Sturm 16 (1925), László Moholy-Nagy (Hungary, Bacsbarsod, 1895 - 1946) , 1924-1925, Printed material with forty-seven linoleum cuts, four wood engravings, and two woodcuts on wove paper

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (28)
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Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: Light Display Machines: Two Works by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was one of the great pioneers of abstract and experimental art of the last century. He worked primarily in painting, photography, and graphic design. Born in Hungary, he was an enormously influential teacher at...
Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...
Fotomuseum: Adam Fuss - Less of a test than earth
His work - to be found where the world as science meets the world as image - provides a very exiting, original contrast to so-called mainstream contemporary culture. Using motifs which take up the themes of nature, energy, memory and longing...
Joslyn Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection
Local support for this exhibition has been made possible in part by the ConAgra Foundation. By about 1890, the art and impact of photography in American culture had been transformed by several important developments: the...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Avant Garde Graphics 1918-1934
This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see posters, prints, book designs and political and commercial ephemera, together with original layouts and photomontages, produced by some of the most important artists working at that time. Bringing toget...
Bellevue Art Museum: Mary Henry: No Limits - Walk into the Artist's World of Geometric Abstraction
Mary Henry: No Limits embodies the cumulative experiences and beliefs of Henry’s artistic background. Her geometric forms have a universal appeal, which apply to the Constructivist artist’s commitment to total abstraction, while embracing moderni...
Laurence Miller Gallery: The Abstracted Landscape : Work by 4 International Artists
Peter Bialobrzeski, in his series Lost in Transition, photographs rapid urbanization and industrialization by taking very long exposures, which create other-worldly colors and lighting not visible to the naked eye. Stephane Couturier embraces the...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Fred Sandback: Sculptures and Drawings
Distinctively, Sandback developed a way of working that dispensed with the mass and weight of materials, and ultimately used acrylic yarn, sometimes multi-coloured, stretched across architectural space. He made sculptures whose factual existen...
Bauhaus Archiv, Museum fuer Gestaltung: Loheland Photography Workshop: Picturing a New Generation of Females
Advertising for the school and products of Loheland was highly professional and adhered to a clear strategy: 'Our advertising efforts must be very energetic and radical, if we are to achieve pecuniary success.' (Hedwig von Rhoden) To a degree that...
Bauhaus Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung: Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt
Her works also challenge gendered conventions in representation and image new roles for women in society. Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt will be the first exhibition to unite and critically examine Brandt's work in the ...
Laurence Miller Gallery: German Photography: From the Bauhaus to the Bechers
German photography in the 1920's and 1930's evolved through two highly articulated but divergent approaches: the school of objectivity, and the school of experimental possibilities. The objective approach will be represented by the landscapes o...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: World Without End - Photography and the 20th Century
World Without End brings together some 200 works of acclaimed ...
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation: Art and Technology - A new Unity: The Bauhaus 1923 - 1932
With this exhibition the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation presents a critical perspective on the Bauhaus as a testing ground for a new design paradigm in which the artist’s creative output was to intermingle with technological ...
Stephen Cohen Gallery: Edmund Teske: Images Out of Time
A pioneering visual artist, Teske was born in Chicago in 1911, where his childhood interest in photography grew into a 60-year pursuit of artistic freedom. His early training at Taliesin with Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s offered Teske import...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Space Odysseys: Sensation and Immersion
The Gallery will be transformed into a series of immersive spatial experiences – both physical and virtual. The works range from the phantasmagoric to the meditative – some intangible, others humourous or uncanny. Environments are created, chamb...
J. Paul Getty Center: Photographers of Genius at the Getty
From Hippolyte Bayard to Diane Arbus, the influential pioneers presented here span more than a century of photography, from the earliest years of the new art form in the late 1830s to the late 1960s. Each photographer featured in the exhibition ad...
J. Paul Getty Center: August Sander: German Portraits (1918-1933)
August Sander (1876- 1964) is revered in Germany as a father of modern photography. Since the 1920s, his work has had an enormous influence on generations of artists around ...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS: Mondrian Painting Acquired from the Original Owners
While many paintings by Mondrian have been damaged by overly aggressive conservation treatment, Composition with Blue, Black, Yellow and Red is in impeccable condition. For decades the design of Mondrian’s works was considered the most critical a...
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: Pine Tree and Wind of Tahit: Bae Bien-U
In both cases, the artist’s intention is to champion the presence of nature in a world increasingly defined by technological change. To do so, he makes use of various artistic devices. Going out to take photographs on misty days, Bae Bien-U uses l...
LUXE Gallery: Experimental Party DisInformation Center, a state-of-the-art media installation
"We welcome all Convention delegates with open hearts and open minds to inform, transform, and redirect their way of thinking," said Deputy Secretary Jeff Gates. "We are thrilled to bring truth, justice, and the American Way to the Republican Par...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection

Joan Miro Foundation: Woman. Metamorphosis of Modernity
The list of artists comprises Tarsila do Amaral, Gertrude Arndt, Jean Arp/Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Braque, Louise Bourgeois, Marianne Breslauer, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Valie Export, Emmanuel Goundouin, Lotte Jacobi, Yv...
TILT Contemporary Art: Call for Artists: SOFT
Juror Kristan Kennedy is the Visual Art Program Director for PICA. She is a graduate of the New York State College of Art and Design at Alfred University, and is an exhibiting artist represented by the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, Oregon...
Walker Art Center: Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay
Ranging from modestly scaled pots to figurines to large sculptures, the 88 works on view cross a spectrum that includes fine art, craft, and outsider practices. Collectively they suggest that clay appeals to basic impulses, starting with the delig...
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona: Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia
Thus the creation of Universal Archive. The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia, an exhibition that brings together nearly 2,000 documents (of which the almost 1,000 vintage photographs and prints are of particular interes...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami: Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 – 2002)
Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949 – 2002) is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and is curated by MOCA Director Bonnie Clearwater. Following its MOCA presentation, the exhibition will be on view at Edinburgh’s Royal Scottish Academ...
Frye Art Museum: An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art
The exciting presentation includes the work of several prominent pre-war European photographers published in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camerawork; a very significant group o...

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