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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
Moholy-Nagy (Berkely) University Art Museum, USA 01-04-1969 ~ 30-06-1969
Lászlo Moholy-Nagy IVAM Centre Julio González, Spain 01-01-1991 ~ 30-04-1991
Lászlo Moholy-Nagy Museum Fridericianum, Germany 01-05-1991 ~ 31-08-1991
Line and Movement Annely Juda, Fine Art, United Kingdom 01-01-1994 ~ 31-12-1994
The Thirties Annely Juda, Fine Art, United Kingdom 02-07-1998 ~ 19-09-1998
Bauhaus: Dessau-Chicago-New York Museum Folkwang, Germany 11-08-2000 ~ 12-11-2000
Lászlo Moholy-Nagy Musée Cantini, France 01-09-1991 ~ 31-12-1991
Moholy-Nagy (Chicago) Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), USA 01-01-1969 ~ 31-03-1969
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
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
Moholy-Nagy (Santa Barbara) Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA 01-10-1969 ~ 31-12-1969
Moholy-Nagy (Seattle) Seattle Art Museum, USA 01-07-1969 ~ 30-11-1969
Lászlo Moholy-Nagy (Budapest) Magyar Nemzeti Galeria, Hungary 01-07-1969 ~ 30-09-1969
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Erich Kahn - Forgotten Generation Jewish Survivor German Expressionist Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 05-05-2005 ~ 09-10-2005
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris Musée du Luxembourg, France 16-10-2008 ~ 22-02-2009
Lászlo Moholy-Nagy Musée Cantini, France 01-09-1991 ~ 31-12-1991
Arriscar o Real Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 08-06-2009 ~ 30-09-2009
Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, Frankfurt Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Germany 08-10-2009 ~ 10-01-2010
Lászlo Moholy-Nagy, Madrid Venue Círculo de Bellas Artes, Spain 01-06-2010 ~ 14-07-2010
Bibliography
Bauhaus, 2000
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 1991 Published by IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez
Line and Movement, 1994 Published by Annely Judda Fine Art
Moholy-Nagy, 1985 Published by Thames & Hudson
Moholy-Nagy, 1969 Published by Museum of Contemporary Art
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Thirties, 1998 Published by Annely Judda Fine Art
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