Artist: Lucia Moholy (Prague (present-day Czech Republic)/UK). Untitled (“Portrait” of László Moholy-Nagy) (1925-1926). Gelatin silver print. Image: 10 3/16 × 7 15/16 in. (25.8 × 20.1 cm).

PRIMARY MATERIALS FOR October 8

View the photograph: Lucia Moholy, Untitled (“Portrait” of László Moholy-Nagy)

View a high-quality reproduction of the photograph on the collections webpage of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

View a high-quality reproduction of another version of the photograph on the collections webpage of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in New York.

Read a little bit about Moholy’s life and work on the webpage of AWARE (Archives of Women Artists Research and Exhibitions).

RESEARCH ACTIVITY (Complete BEFORE you come to class):

Research and curate 5 photographs by Lucia Moholy/the Bauhaus school; bring in to share

As part of your curated image collection, write and bring in a short paragraph (approx. 150-200 words) explaining why you chose the photographs you did. Your reasons may be connected with any aspect of the photograph/s.

Intertexts/dialogues:

László Moholy-Nagy (artist and photographer, husband of Lucia Moholy, professor at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany)

The Bauhaus (famous German art school, focus on the Dessau years (Dessau = city where the school was when Moholy was there))

Florence Henri (another Bauhaus photographer and artist)

Charlotte Rudolph (another Bauhaus photographer and artist)

Umbo (Otto Umbeh) (another Bauhaus photographer)

New Objectivity (German art movement)

Nazism / Third Reich (impact on the Bauhaus school)

Russian Constructivism (Russian art movement)

Aleksander Rodchenko (Russian artist, connected with Constructivism)

Varvara Stepanova (Russian artist, connected with Constructivism)