Bauhaus residences Dessau, kitchen – sideboard
(Bauhaussiedlung Dessau, küche – anrichte)
(1926)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
11.9 × 16.8 cm (image) 13.0 × 17.9 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bowness Family Fund for Photography, 2023
© 2023 Lucia Moholy Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Gallery location
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International
About this work
Lucia Moholy is best known for documenting the architecture, people and creative outputs of the Bauhaus school. Her work was often incorrectly attributed to famous men of the school, such as its founder, Walter Gropius, and Moholy’s then husband, László Moholy-Nagy. In this photograph, Moholy captures Gropius’s kitchen in the Masters’ House. The building and the design schools nearby, built between 1925 and 1926, are exemplars of European modern architecture and design. Sharp lines and dynamic angles emphasise the modular design, displaying the modernist principles of photography that Moholy applied to her images of architectural spaces.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Dessau, Germany
Inscription
stamped in ink on reverse u.r.: FOTO LUCIA MOHOLY-DESSAU / Ohne Erlaubnis / Reproduktion (underlined) (…illeg) / Reproduktion verboten (underlined)
Accession Number
2023.591
Department
International Photography