László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː ˈmoholiˌnɒɟ]), July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a 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.
Moholy-Nagy was born László Weisz to a Jewish-Hungarian family. His cousin was the conductor Sir Georg Solti. He attended Gymnasium (a...
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László Moholy-Nagy (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈlaːsloː ˈmoholiˌnɒɟ]), July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a 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.
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 crtici Ivan Hevesy. Immediately before and during the war he studied law in Budapest and served in World War I, where he was sustained a serious injury. In Budapest, on leaves and...
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