Fogg Shows Work Of Magyar Artist

Fogg Art Museum opens this week an exhibition of more than 60 works of art by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy to run until Monday, February 27.

The exhibition, which ranges from abstract paintings to "Space Modulators" and sculptures in Plexiglas, shows the works of the Hungarian painter, type grappler, sculptor, industrial designer, photographer, and writer.

Born in 1895, Moholy-Nagy took up painting after World War I and migrated to Borlin in 1920. He first gained fame through his work as a teacher in the Baubaus at Weimar under Walter Gropins, now professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design.

Leaving Germany when the Nazis came to power, he lived for a few years in Holland and England before he settled in Chicago. There he founded the Institute of Design, which he directed until his death in 1946.

Moholy-Nagy wrote: "Our time is one of transition, one of striving towards a synthesis of all knowledge. A person with imagination can function now as an integrator."