László Moholy-Nagy

László Moholy-Nagy (), July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Calvinist-Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.

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Moholy-Nagy was born László Weisz to a Jewish-Hungarian family. His cousin was the conductor Sir Georg Solti. He attended Gymnasium (academic high school) in the city of Szeged. He changed his German-Jewish surname to the Magyar surname of his mother's friend, Nagy. Later, he added ?Moholy? to his surname, after the name of the town Mohol in which he grew up. In 1918 he formally converted to the Hungarian Reformed Church (Calvinist); his Godfather was his Roman Catholic university friend, the art critic Ivan Hevesy. Immediately before and during the war he studied law in Budapest and served in World War I, where he sustained a serious injury. In Budapest, on leaves and during convalescence, Moholy-Nagy became involved first with the journal Jelenkor (?The Present Age?), edited by Hevesy, and then with the ?Activist? circle around Lajos Kassak's journal Ma (?Today?). After his discharge from the Austro-Hungarian army in October 1918, he attended the private art school of the Hungarian Fauve artist Robert Bereny. He was a supporter of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, declared early in 1919, though he assumed no official role in it. After the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet in August, he withdrew to Szeged. An exhibition of his work was held there, before he left for Vienna around November of 1919. He left for Berlin early in 1920.

Painter: :For the computer graphics program, see Corel Painter....

Photographer: A photographer is a person who takes photographs using a camera. A professional photographer uses photography to earn money whilst amateur photographers take photographs for pleasure and to record an event, emotion, place or person....

Bauhaus: :Alternate use: There is also a British rock band named Bauhaus....

László Moholy-Nagy related Images and Photos (experimental)

Käthe von Nagy and Jean Murat: Le Capitaine Craddock 1931