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L·szlÛ Moholy-Nagy, artist
Hungarian, 1895 - 1946
Composition, circa 1923
linoleum cut
8.3 x 11.8 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts purchase 1981.1.185

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Artist Biography: Born in Hungary 1895, died in Chicago 1946; in the U. S. after 1938~Painter, photographer, and art teacher. Had vision of a nonrepresentational art consisting of pure visual fundamentals (i.e. color, texture, light, and balance of forms). Was immensely influential in both the fine and applied arts of the mid-20th century.~~Headed the metal workshop of the Bauhaus school of design in Berlin, and later founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago.

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