The Bauhaus, László Moholy-Nagy, and Milwaukee
The Bauhaus, László Moholy-Nagy, and Milwaukee Lisa Sutcliffe, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts Monica Obniski, Demmer Curator of 20th- and 21st-Century Design Ariel Pate, Assistant Curator of Photography
To mark the centennial year of the founding of the Bauhaus (1919–1933), the innovative art, architecture, and design school in Germany, the Museum put together a special presentation in its Bradley Galleries of Modern Art. Highlighted is the artist, designer, and theorist László Moholy-Nagy (American, b. Hungary, 1895– 1946), one of the school’s key figures. Even if some of you visited the display, new works
were rotated in when the Museum was still open, and we thought what better time to take, at your leisure, a deeper dive. Among the objects that you can explore here, and in the 360 tour of the display, are classic Bauhaus design books and a new addition to the Museum’s collection, a desk set Moholy-Nagy designed while working for the Wisconsin company Parker Pen.
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