11.13.2011

get into laszlo moholy-nagy!

László Moholy-Nagy
1895-1946
(Pronunciation here
most people just murder his name....)

László Moholy-Nagy
Cigarette Ad 
Photomontage on Photogram
1923

László Moholy-Nagy
Photogram
1922

László Moholy-Nagy
"Me"
Photomontage
1925

Camouflage Exhibition
School of Design 
The instructor was Gyorgy Kepes.
Chicago
1943

László Moholy-Nagy
Stage Setting for
"The Tales of Hoffmann"
State Opera
Berlin
1929
Check out the chair and sofa!
eat your heart out!

László Moholy-Nagy
"Light-space Modulator"
1922-30

László Moholy-Nagy 
at "La Sarraz".
1932

László Moholy-Nagy
preparing for his speech at the opening of
The New Bauhaus.
Chicago
1937

Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
at the opening of
The New Bauhaus.
Chicago
1937

Registered inventions of the students
of the School of Design.
Chicago
1939-43

WTF?
Wood -spring mattress developed at 
The School of Design
for Seng and Co.
Chicago
1943
Looks comfy! 
So comfy, it puts you to sleep 
in the middle of what you are doing apparently!

László Moholy-Nagy
Desk Set for Parker 51 Pen
1946
(Let the search begin!)

László Moholy-Nagy
Lecturing at the School of Design.
Chicago
1946

"moholy-nagy
an experiment in totality"
by
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy
1950
(first edition)

(Book jacket designed by
Martin Metal,
friend and student of Moholy.)

8 comments:

  1. Love him and his work! My belle Mere is also Hungarian and is an incredibly talented woman. I love to listen to all her stories and her drawings are exquisite. Must be something in water...

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  2. Is there a book on Hungarian Modernism? There should be....

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  3. Sometimes I want to live in this blog....

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  4. Ohhh! That would be fun! Kinda like that last semi/kinda/really bad Woody Allen movie but better....

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  5. my advice is to buy this book:"von kunst zu leben - die ungarn am bauhaus"ISBN 978-963-9873-19-3
    it shows that in the end all talent at the bauhausesd was actually hungarian.
    i am sure it will soon also turn out that
    joey ramone was originally from budapest.

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  6. The furniture in this blog is so much better than in real life, and the lighting is killer!

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  7. lara you are so right. anything in this blog is better than anything in real life.. i'll get some crackers and red bulls ,lets cuddle up here..

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  8. The 1925 photomontage titled "Me" is remarkably similar to one from 1928 by Marianne Brandt, one of his students at the Bauhaus. See the Bauhaus site: http://bauhaus-online.de/en and also this site about her collage work: http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/davis8-3-06_detail.asp?picnum=5

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