László Moholy-Nagy

Hungarian painter, photographer, and designer (1895–1946), a Bauhaus master and pioneer of the integration of art, technology, and industry.

Moholy-Nagy worked across photography, film, kinetic sculpture, and typography, and carried the Bauhaus idea to America, founding the New Bauhaus in Chicago in 1937 — the school that became the Institute of Design.

Relationship to Fuller

Relationship: contemporary. Moholy-Nagy founded the New Bauhaus / Institute of Design in Chicago, on whose faculty R. Buckminster Fuller served — a direct institutional link between Fuller and the Bauhaus tradition of fusing art, science, and technology in design education. The two shared the conviction that design should be a comprehensive, technically literate discipline in service of human needs. That common program and shared institution make Moholy-Nagy a significant contemporary in Fuller's world, the Bauhaus counterpart to Fuller's own design science.

See Also

• Josef Albers (Josef Albers) — fellow Bauhaus master who carried the school's teaching to America
• John Cage (John Cage) — experimental contemporary of the same mid-century avant-garde
• Walter Gropius (Walter Gropius) — founder of the Bauhaus whose program Moholy-Nagy extended

Sources

• John Cage (source reference) — situates Moholy-Nagy in the mid-century avant-garde around Fuller's circle