László Moholy-Nagy (born László Weisz, 1895–1946) was a Hungarian painter, photographer, and professor at the Bauhaus school. He was significantly influenced by constructivism and advocated for the integration of technology and industry into the arts.
Moholy-Nagy pursued a relentlessly experimental approach across painting, drawing, photography, collage, sculpture, film, theater, and writing. He worked collaboratively with artists such as Lucia Moholy, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Herbert Bayer, and was a proponent of the New Vision in photography. His designs incorporated materials like glass, nickel, and plexiglass.
In 1938, Moholy-Nagy founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago, which later became the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He also authored books and articles promoting a utopian high modernism, significantly influencing American industrial design.
