Where can i find information to write a biography on Laszio Moholy-Nagy??? HELP!!!!!!?

Question

i cant find a biograpghy on him! just his name saying his art is featured or that such and such an artist studied with him - i need to write this paper quick and i cant find info!!

he was a Bauhaus Designer -if that helps

and duh i have googled it!!!!!!!

Answer 1

László Moholy-NagyLászló Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism. He was a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.

After studying law in Budapest and serving in the World War I, Moholy-Nagy was in Vienna in 1919 where he first discovered constructivism in exhibitions of works of Malevich, Naum Gabo and El Lissitzky.

In 1923, he replaced Johannes Itten as the instructor of the preliminary course at the Bauhaus. This effectively marked the end of the school's expressionistic leanings and moved it closer towards its original aims as a school of design and industrial integration. The Bauhaus became known for the versatility of its artist and Moholy-Nagy was no exception. Throughout his career he became proficient and innovative in the fields of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, and industrial design. One of his main focuses was on photography. He coined the term "the New Vision", for his belief that photography could create a whole new way of seeing the outside world that the human eye could not. His theory of art and teaching was summed up in the book The New Vision, from Material to Architecture. He experimented with the photographic process of exposing light sensitive paper with objects overlaid on top of it, called photogram.

He was editor of the art and photography department of the European avant-garde magazine International Revue i 10 from 1927 to 1929. Moholy-Nagy resigned from the Bauhaus in 1928 and worked in film and stage design in Berlin but was required to submit his work to be censored and then in Paris and Holland before moving to London in 1935. In England Moholy-Nagy formed part of the circle of emigré artists and intellectuals who based themselves in Hampstead. Moholy-Nagy lived for a time in the Isokon building with Walter Gropius for eight months and then settled in Golders Green. Gropius and Moholy-Nagy planned to establish and English version of the Bauhaus but could not secure backing and then Moholy-Nagy was turned down for a teaching job at the Royal College of Art. Moholy-Nagy made his way in London by taking on various design jobs including Imperial Airways and a shop display for mens underwear. He photographed contemporary architecture for the Architectural Review where the assistant editor was John Betjeman who commissioned Moholy-Nagy to make documentary photographs to illustrate his book An Oxford University Chest. In 1936 he was commissioned by fellow Hungarian film producer Alexander Korda to design special effects for Things to Come. Working at Denham Studios, Moholy-Nagy created kinetic sculptures and abstract light effects but they were rejected by the film's director. At the invitation of Leslie Martin he gave a lecture to the architecture school of Hull University.

In 1937, at the invitation of Walter Paepcke, the Chairman of the Container Corporation of America, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus. The philosophy of the school was basically unchanged from that of the original, and its headquarters was the Prairie Avenue mansion that architect Richard Morris Hunt designed for department store magnate Marshall Field.

Unfortunately, the school lost the financial backing of its supporters after only a single academic year and it closed in 1938. Paepcke, however, continued his own support, and in 1939, Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design. In 1944, this became the Institute of Design. He authored an account of his efforts to develop the curriculum of the School of Design in his book Vision in Motion.

Moholy-Nagy died of leukemia in Chicago in 1946.

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest is named in his honour.


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Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Moholy-Nagy

hope that helps

ps yor spelling his name wrong prob why u couldn't find it
László Moholy-Nagy is the right way

Answer 3

This might get you started:
http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=2016

Answer 4

GOOGLE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!