Berlin Architecture Exhibition
(Exposition d'Architecture à Berlin en 1928)
(1928)
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
16.3 × 22.4 cm (image) 16.9 × 22.9 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bowness Family Fund for Photography, 2024
© 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
In 1928 Lucia Moholy and László Moholy-Nagy left Dessau for a new life in Berlin. This image documents an innovative housing exhibition showcasing modern living. The display, designed by architect Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus school, featured new housing concepts in Zehlendorf, a Berlin neighbourhood. The graphic lettering on the building translates to ‘Live in a green environment, ideal case: Zehlendorf’. Moholy-Nagy designed the interiors, and Moholy’s images, with their signature focus on starkly contrasting vertical and horizontal lines, highlight their modernist design principles.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Berlin, Germany
Inscription
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.l.: (...illeg.) I/279 / (...illeg.) (crossed out) / A H A G – ausstellung x (allg. häuserbau / a. g.) / berlin – zehlendorf 1928 / arch. gropius / gesamtausstattung: moholy-nagy / x propoganda für helles, neuzeitliches/ wohnen im grünen
stamped in ink on reverse u.r.: FOTO LUCIA MOHOLY – BERLIN / Ohne Erlaubnis / Reproduktion verboten
Accession Number
2024.111
Department
International Photography