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Biography
Hungarian painter, sculptor, photographer, designer, director, theorist and teacher who, later, would receive American nationality. Soon after having studied Law for a year in Budapest he enlisted for the First World War. In 1919, he moved to Berlin where an itinerant exhibition of his work was organised by the Sturm Gallery. In 1921, influenced by Dada ideas, Moholy-Nagy began a systematic study of the inter-relation between space, time mass and light. He constructed sculptures which stressed play of light, paint and patterns of transparent colours. In 1929, he established design studio in Berlin and was contracted to do layouts for magazines, exhibitions and theatrical events. In 1933, he moved to Amsterdam where he became art director of the periodical, International Textiles but, two years later, he was forced to go to London owing to professional and political problems, for two years. It was here that he joined Walter Gropius and became a member of the vanguard artistic circle which included Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Henry Moore, John Piper, John Grierson and Herbert Read. His best known commercial work is the Parker 51 of 1941. His personal interests, such as tubular structures, plastics, the atomic bomb and even leukaemia (the disease that caused his death) appeared as abstract themes in his paintings and sculptures. In his experiments with photography, he was a pioneer in the artistic use of light and laid the foundations for Kinetic Art.
Exhibitions
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-10-2003 ~ 22-02-2004
Erich Kahn - Forgotten Generation Jewish Survivor German Expressionist Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 05-05-2005 ~ 09-10-2005
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo Galeria Diário de Noticias, Portugal 15-03-2006 ~ 05-05-2006
Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, Berlin Martin Gropius Bau, Germany 04-11-2010 ~ 16-01-2011
Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, The Hague Museum of Photography, Gemeentemuseum, Holland 29-01-2011 ~ 01-05-2011
Bibliography
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972990300X
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Erich Kahn - Forgotten Generation Jewish Survivor German Expressionist , 2005 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903018
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Diário de Notícias ISBN 9729335923
Moholy-Nagy, 1985 Published by Thames & Hudson
The Print in Germany, 1880-1933, 1984 Published by The British Museum
Weiland Schmied, Wegbereiter zur modernen Kunst. Published by 50 Jahre Kestner-Gesellschaft, Fackeltrager-Verlag
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