The Art of Light: Works by László Moholy-Nagy at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag

THE HAGUE.- Light as art and art as light. Throughout his life, László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) played with light in all his work: his paintings, sculptures, collages, photographs, films, graphic designs, book covers and theatre sets. Light is to Moholy-Nagy what a pencil is to a draughtsman. He lived during that fascinating era when the art world experienced a transition to modern times: the interwar period, a time of world-famous art movements like the Bauhaus and De Stijl. Moholy-Nagy was a real citizen of the world. His life was one long journey, from Hungary, the country of his birth, to Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, London and Chicago – sometimes driven by emerging political threats, at other times in search of a new artistic challenge. Moholy-Nagy could turn his hand to anything. Besides working as an artist, he was also an intellectual, critic, thinker and teacher, but above all he was a utopian. Gemeentemuseum Den

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