László Moholy-Nagy
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Artist László Moholy-Nagy American, born Hungary, 1895–1946

CultureAmerican

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Date1926

MediumGelatin silver print, photogram

DimensionsImage: 8 5/16 × 11 1/16 in. (21.1 × 28.1 cm)
Sheet: 8 3/4 × 11 9/16 in. (22.3 × 29.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection

Object number2002.1691

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionThe artist, theorist, and teacher László Moholy-Nagy profoundly influenced the evolution of modern art through his art, publications, and teaching posts, first at the Bauhaus in Weimar, and then in Dessau, Germany, between 1923 and 1928, and later at the New Bauhaus (which became the Institute of Design) in Chicago between 1937 and 1946. Moholy-Nagy was aligned with the Constructivist movement, which was founded in the Soviet Union in 1919, and promoted art in all media that combined acute attention to the particular material properties of an object as well as to its spatial presence. The Constructivists’ works were geometric in construction with clean, industrial lines. In photography, they favored an abstract use of light, making photograms ideal for their purpose.
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History“Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 to Today” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 31– November 30, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso center in pencil "12. Serle[?] links / 6x8 1/2", reading vertically "CAY[?]"

perhaps a signature verso top left in pencil "Abb. I. Moholy-Nagy / fotogramm"

verso bottom right a stamp with additions in pencil "foto moholy-nagy / gramm / 1926 / Fotogramm"

Catalogue raisonnéMoholy-Nagy: The Photograms, 2009, fgm 124A

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