László Moholy-Nagy's Photogram forces the viewer to question what a photograph is.
Bauhaus
For Bauhaus designers, beauty was achieved through careful choices of materials, proportions, textures, and colors for the functional features of the objects.
The Bauhaus and Bau
“The Bauhaus believes the machine to be our modern medium of design and seeks to come to terms with it.”
The Bauhaus: Marcel Breuer
Today, Bauhaus designs are so familiar and so simple that they don’t seem to have required a designer, but they were as radical in their time as they are commonplace now.
The Bauhaus, an Introduction
When female applicants at the Bauhaus threatened to equal or even outnumber male applicants, the masters at the school agreed to channel women into the pottery, bookbinding, and weaving workshops.
The Bauhaus: Marianne Brandt
Moholy-Nagy claimed to create these objects without touching them or even seeing them—how does that work?
László Moholy-Nagy, Telephone Pictures
A worm’s eye view: this photograph upends our expectations, helping us think more deeply about seeing.
László Moholy-Nagy, Climbing the Mast
Klee playfully evokes sound, energy, and motion with these mischievous birds—all in two dimensions.
Paul Klee, Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine)
This woodcut embodies the hopes of the Bauhaus, a new German school for craft and architecture.
Lyonel Feininger, Cathedral for Program of the ...
Moholy-Nagy influenced the Bauhaus in its shift toward industrial aesthetics and materials.
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