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László Moholy-Nagy
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Hungarian artist (1895–1946)
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László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian and American painter, photographer, sculptor, and designer. Born in Bácsborsód on July 20, 1895, he worked in the genre of abstract art. He held citizenship in both Hungary and the United States and resided in locations including Mol, Budapest, Szeged, and Vienna. Moholy-Nagy participated in World War I and was employed by the Bauhaus, the IIT Institute of Design, and the Illinois Institute of Technology.
His students included Florence Henri and Franciska Clausen. He was married to Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and Lucia Moholy. Moholy-Nagy died of leukemia in Chicago on November 24, 1946, and was buried at Graceland Cemetery.
Synthesized by Vinony from 42 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1895
- Died
- 1946
- Works
- 83
Top works
- László Moholy-Nagy
- I. [!] Moholy-Nagy
- Moholy
- Works of art by Moholy-Nagy
- Le Corbeau et le Renard
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · Bácsborsód
László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.
Known for
- The New Bauhaus — Himself (archive footage)2019
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- San Francisco
- Active from
- 1895
- Active to
- 1946
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 5
- Total plays
- 6
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3+Moholy-Nagy">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Statistical mechanics of complex networks
· 2002 · cited 16,127x
- 2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)
· 2020 · cited 8,240x
- 2019 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias:
<i>lipid modification to reduce cardiovascular risk</i>
· 2019 · cited 7,869x
- Error and attack tolerance of complex networks
· 2000 · cited 7,102x
- Electrophilicity Index
· 1999 · cited 7,098x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.”
- “The photogram, image formation outside the camera is the real key to photography,it embodies the essence... that allows us to capture light on light sensitive material without the use of any camera.”
- “The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.”
- “Designing is not a profession but an attitude.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- László Weisz , ( 1895-07-20 ) July 20, 1895, Bácsborsód , Austria-Hungary
- Died
- November 24, 1946 (1946-11-24) (aged 51), Chicago, Illinois, US
- Resting place
- Graceland Cemetery
- Education
- University of Budapest
- Known for
- Painting, photography, sculpture, film
- Notable work
- Light Prop for an Electric Stage (1928–1930, also called Light-Space Modulator posthumously)
- Style
- Constructivism
- Movement
- Bauhaus
- Spouses
- Lucia Schulz ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1921 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1929 ) Sibylle Pietzsch ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1932 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- László
- Family name
- Nagy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bácsborsód
- Place of death
- Chicago
- Spouse
- Lucia Moholy
- Educated at
- Eötvös Loránd University
- Employer
- Illinois Institute of Technology
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Native language
- Hungarian
- Genre
- abstract art
- Movement
- Constructivism
- Conflict
- World War I
- Image
- László Moholy-Nagy by Hugo Erfurth, c. 1930 .jpg
- Residence
- Chicago
Show 18 more facts
- Commons category
- László Moholy-Nagy
- cause of death
- leukemia
- date of birth
- 1895-07-20
- date of death
- 1946-11-24
- Commons Creator page
- László Moholy-Nagy
- place of burial
- Graceland Cemetery
- student
- Franciska Clausen
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons gallery
- László Moholy-Nagy
- member of
- American Abstract Artists
- has works in the collection
- Sprengel Museum
- P8168
- Mauriac
- name in native language
- Moholy-Nagy László
- birth name
- Weisz László
- pseudonym
- Laszlo
- described at URL
- arch-pavouk.cz/index.php/architekti/1187-moholy-nagy-laszlo
- affiliation
- IIT Institute of Design
- archives at
- Bauhaus-Archiv
Sources (15)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to László Moholy-Nagy, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
From material to architecture
Q IV
Kestner folder, six constructions
Untitled
Berlin, “Piscator-Bühne,” “Kaufmann von Berlin”
Light equivalent of an electric stage. Presentation of the overall model
The broken marriage
Kestner folder, six constructions
Kestner folder, six constructions
EM 3 (Telefonbild)
Kestner folder, six constructions
The World Building
Mord auf den Schienen
Composition (glass architecture)
Light-room modulator, reconstruction, made by the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum
A score sketch for a mechanical eccentric. With explanation board
Light equivalent of a mechanical stage. Presentation of a game of movement on the first sector. Drawing
Kestner folder, six constructions
Bridging
The big wheel. The big feeling machine
Letter from Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Oskar Schlemmer, Georg Muche and László Moholy-Nagy from District of Friends of the Bauhaus & lt; Dessau & gt; to Gerhart Hauptmann
Frame Laszlo and Lucia
Frame
Frame
Frame
Frame Self portrait
Frame and collage Self portrait
Leda and the swan
My name is hare
Gelosia
Frame
Frames
Behind God
The wedding destroyed
Assassination on tracks
~16 min read
Encyclopedic overview
László Moholy-Nagy (/məˌhoʊliˈnɒdʒ/; Hungarian: [ˈlaːsloː ˈmoholiˌnɒɟ]; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts. The art critic Peter Schjeldahl called him "relentlessly experimental" because of his pioneering work in painting, drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, theater, and writing.
He also worked collaboratively with other artists, including his first wife Lucia Moholy, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Herbert Bayer. His largest accomplishment may be the Institute of Design in Chicago, which survives today as part of the Illinois Institute of Technology, and art historian Elizabeth Siegel called "his overarching work of art". He also wrote books and articles advocating a utopian type of high modernism.
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