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László Moholy-Nagy
"I lived my childhood years in a terrible great quietness,“(2)

A Little Family History
Born in 1895 in a small village in southern Austria-Hungary, Borsod; Which later became known as Bácsborsod.

László’s father was the foreman of a large estate, who abandoned his family when Laszlo was young.

He Is the Second Child of three brothers

László and his younger brother, Ákos, went to high school, in Szeged, Hungary’s second largest city at that time, while the older brother, Jenö, went to school in Budapest.

His mother took the three boys to live with her family in Ada, now in Serbia

His maternal uncle, Gusztáv Nagy, became his and his brother’s guardian. He was a lawyer and lived in Moholy a town nearby.


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Moholy,L.(1925–1926)László Moholy-Nagy[Photograph].New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.Retrieved from Oxford Art Online database.

A Little Of His History and Ambitions
László’s first ambition was to become a writer, while he was still in school some of his poetry was published in Szeged newspapers.

When he graduated in 1913, he was encouraged by his uncle to study law in Budapest

World War I interrupted László’s law studies, which he never finished. In 1915 he enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian army as an officer in the artillery.

After being put on reserve status during WW1 Moholy-Nagy attended evening classes at Robert Berény’s art school.
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Moholy,L.(1925–1926)László Moholy-Nagy[Photograph].New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.Retrieved from Oxford Art Online database.

Timeline
1917
While on reserve in Budapest, he published short stories and literary criticism
1918
Moholy began his career as an artist
1918
Moholy began his career as an artist
1923
Walter Gropius, the founder and director of the Bauhaus hired Moholy as a master, teacher
1928
Due to Walter Gropius resignation and the Bauhaus move to Berlin, Moholy-Nagy began working as a free-lance designer
1934
Moholy-Nagy accepted a job doing exhibition and advertising work in Amsterdam
1935
Moholy moved to London and set up a design studio with György Kepes.
Alexander Korda invited him to design the special effects and sets for a film, “Things to Come.”
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Timeline
1935
While in England Moholy took a great deal of photographs. He was able illustrate three books with his photography ,which were published in England on London’s street markets, Eton, and Oxford, as well as several magazine articles.
1937
László Moholy-Nagy was offered the opportunity to teach again at a new art school in Chicago he was delighted, and in the fall of he moved his family to America.
1938
Due to the schools closure Moholy had to return to commercial work
1939
In February Moholy was able to open his own school, which he named The School of Design in Chicago. Which in 1949 the school became a department of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Throughout the years and many job changes Moholy continued to paint, photograph, lecture, and publish. He published many articles that were translated into several languages, and he wrote two books for the Bauhaus Books series.

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Influences
At first Moholy didn’t understand Cubism, Fauvism, or Futurism. He studied the drawings of artists like Rembrandt and van Gogh and became fascinated and influenced by the expressive power of lines alone without halftones. He was also strongly influenced by Russian Constructivism, especially the works of the artist, El Lissitzky, who visited Berlin in the early 1920s. (2)
Maholy-Nagy believed in the merge of art and technology as he saw technology as being the way into the future "the user of machines is to be the spirit of the century“(3).
This idea of the merge between the two is seen today with new artistic innovations becoming possible with each step technology takes. Such as the creation of the camera and the continuing development of the camera has led to photography becoming a widely recognized art form with many different genres.
He created what is known as typo photo which is the combination of images and text, this is still seen today and frequently seen in advertising such as movie posters.


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Photo text Maholy-Nagy

Moholy-Nagy,L(1925)Abstraction[Photograph].Saint Louis,Saint Louis Art Museum, Friends Fund.Retrived from ARTstor collections.

How Nagy Became Famous
He became famous for his Photograms: placing materials on a light sensitive object and photographing them helped change the direction of the Bauhaus school away from individual pieces and more towards design and pattern able to be sold to industry as to oppose a small number of wealthy clientele that the individual designs were sold to.
To continue to make a living seen in Gropius's 1923 lecture titled "Art and Technology: a New Unity". Unlike Itten he taught those in the workshop how to create light bulbs and tea strainers, pragmatic objects with everyday use, he replaced work that was for it's own sake to work with a purpose
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Moholy-Nagy,L(1925)Composition A XXI[Painting].Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster.Retrieved from ARTstor collections.

Fun Facts
He interacted with and was influenced by the Berlin dadaists (dadaism is known as the anti thesis of art) and the Russian constructivists ( a movement born in Russia that believed art should serve a social purpose, also referred to as engineer inspired art). (Image Resource: 6)
Moholy was diagnosed with leukemia in the winter of 1945. He underwent treatments which allowed him to keep up with his busy schedule for another year before he died at the tragic age of 51.He is buried in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. (2)(1)
He liked to play with light within his compositions and believed the perfect use of light composition in a piece of art could help it transcend race, sex and education. (Image Resource: 6)
He believed that the idea of art subjectivity and that each piece of art was stamped with the artists personality which ties in with the idea of art serving a social purpose. He considered that one that limited themselves to one style was visually illiterate. (3)
He was encouraged to become an artist by Iván Hevesy, an art critic, and a close friend who was one of his important early mentors. (2)

"Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain function. It is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Thinking in relationships." (2)





C.Photogram Composition 1923-1925

Referendum and Sources
(1) :Retrieved 8th April, 2013
http://www.moholy-nagy.com/Chronology_1.html: http://www.moholy-nagy.org.
© 2004 The Moholy-Nagy Foundation. All rights reserved.
(2):BEGINNINGS IN HUNGARY AND A SOJOURN IN VIENNA (1895-1919).(2004)Retrieved April 7, 2013, from
http://www.moholy-nagy.com/Biography_1.html
(3): Chakraborty-James, Kathleen, Bauhaus Culture from Weimar to the Cold War
Whitford, Frank (England).1984. Bauhaus. London. Thames and Hudson Ltd

Image References

Title page:
Retrieved from: http://guity-novin.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/history-of-type-face.html
Slide 2-3:
Moholy,L.(1925–1926)László Moholy-Nagy[Photograph].New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.Retrieved from Oxford Art Online database.
Slide 6 & 11:
Retrieved 8th April, 2013 From: http://www.moholy-nagy.com/Chronology_1.html & http://www.moholy-nagy.org.
Slide 7:
Moholy,L.(1925–1926)László Moholy-Nagy[Photograph].New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.Retrieved from Oxford Art Online database.
Slide 9:
Moholy-Nagy,L(1925)Composition A XXI[Painting].Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster.Retrieved from ARTstor collections.

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