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

CultureAmerican

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Date1938–1943

MediumGelatin silver print, photogram

DimensionsImage: 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.2 × 20.3 cm)
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 8 in. (25.2 × 20.3 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment

Object number84.241

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Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionLászló Moholy-Nagy, a former master at the Bauhaus, the revolutionary art school closed by the Nazis in 1933, became a founding instructor at Chicago’s Institute of Design, bringing with him the creative experimentation promoted at the Bauhaus. Moholy-Nagy frequently experimented with cameraless photograms, a technique of placing objects directly on sensitized paper and exposing them to light. Rather than precise records of an object’s form, the results were unpredictable and unrepeatable, unrecognizable and abstract.
ProvenanceWilliam Larson; purchased by MFAH, 1984.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Moholy Nagy: The Evolution of a Photographic Vision," Wellesley College Museum, 16 April - 10 June 1985; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 2 Nov. 1985 - 5 January; Art Institute of Chicago, 31 Jan. - 13 April 1986 (LN:85.13)

Exhibited: "Moholy-Nagy," IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain, 11 Feb - Apr 7, 1991, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, Apr 21 - June 16, 1991,
Centre de la Vieille Charite des Musees de Marseilles, Marseille, France
July 5 - Sep 15, 1991(LN:91.15)
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

verso bottom center in pencil: L.Moholy=Nagy

Catalogue raisonnéMoholy-Nagy: The Photograms, 2009, fgm 317

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