Lucia Moholy
Lucia Moholy
As a photographer and publicist for the Bauhaus in Dessau, Lucia Moholy‘s perspective on the architecture and the objects produced there significantly shaped the school‘s image. Lucia Moholy‘s photographs reveal her subjective, artistic view of ‘her’ reality, while also reflecting the new conception of architecture and design in the 1920s and 30s, which sought to ‘improve’ life.
Lucia Moholy‘s (HUN/AT1894-1989) works are part of institutional collections such as Museum Ludwig Cologne, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, and MoMA New York. In 2024/25 the Kunsthalle in Prague and Fotomuseum Winterthur dedicated solo exhibitions to her as well as the Bröhan Museum, Berlin (2022/23) and Museum Ludwig Cologne (2019/2020). Recently her work was featured in international group exhibitions such as “Female Pioneers of geometrical Abstraction”, Wilhem-Hack Museum (2024). In 2024, the French-German TV station ARTE dedicated a film portrait to Lucia Moholy. In addition, she is considered the „silent co-author“ of László Moholy-Nagy‘s book “Painting Photography Film”(1925), instrumental in formulating the manifesto on the „New Vision“ and developed techniques of camera-less photography such as the photogram.
