László Moholy-Nagy

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The Human Endeavour: 'Bauhaus: Art as Life' at the Barbican
by R Jh
Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Hannes Meyer, László Moholy-Nagy, Gunta Stölzl, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe at Barbican Art Gallery May 3rd, 2012 - August 12th, 2012
Posted 8/19/12

All too frequently the presentation and packaging of the Bauhaus to audiences has been to focus on the leading male quartet of Gropius, van der Rohe, Breuer and Meyer as the pioneers of a cold, precise, machine-driven sect whose tubular chairs and avant-garde works became stereotypical hallmarks of a ‘bourgeois’ European formalism. Barbican’s ‘Bauhaus: Art as life’ aims to inject the forgotten human endeavour and encounters that took place at Weimar and Dessau, back at the centre of the sc... [more]

An Education

by Robyn Farrell Roulo
László Moholy-Nagy at Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA) February 11th, 2010 - May 9th, 2010
Posted 4/30/10

"Moholy: An Education of the Senses", focuses on the art and ideas of the celebrated modernist and Chicago transplant László Moholy-Nagy (American, b. Austria-Hungary, 1895–1946). Comprised of a range of media, the exhibition provides a view into the galvanizing thoughts and innovative practice of the Bauhaus artist, highlighting his influence on modern art and Chicago. A quote from the artist at the start of the exhibition, aptly heralds, “Thanks to the photographer humanity has acquired... [more]