Terms and conditions of use
Rothenburg
(1920-1939); printed 1973
Medium
gelatin silver photograph
Measurements
17.6 × 23.6 cm (image) 17.9 × 23.8 cm (sheet)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1975
© Public Domain
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
With his then wife, the artist Lucia Moholy, László Moholy-Nagy moved from Budapest to Berlin in 1920. In 1923 he became a teacher at the Bauhaus school in Weimar, initially co-teaching the foundation course and eventually becoming head of the metal workshop. Photography was a central focus of his practice, and Moholy-Nagy used his highly experimental work as a means of representing the dynamism and complexity of urban culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Having been first introduced to the medium by his wife, Moholy-Nagy believed photography was pivotal to creating a ‘new vision’ of the world, a concept in line with modernist understandings of postwar society.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Rothenburg, Saxony, Germany
Inscription
embossed (in image) l.r.: FOTO REPRO 1973
Accession Number
PH83-1975
Department
International Photography
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